uddharet from Kupa manduka to jivanmukt

Many people do not have an independent thinking. We tend to believe what others say or what media is saying. A frog living in a well (Kupa manduka) assumes that the limited space of the pond makes up the whole world. People who boasts of knowing everything or those who blindly believes others are also like a Kupa manduka. The limitations of time, space, knowledge, bondages etc acts as the walls of the pond. These limitations destroy our independent thinking. Brahman has no such limitations and hence knowledge of the ultimate reality alone is considered as our ultimate goal. When you interact with broad minded people through satsang, you evolve and expand your horizon. If we meet people with narrow vision, our well always remains limited in content.

Shankara says - "In all the three worlds there is no boat like Satsang to carry one safely across the ocean of births and deaths". The word Sath refers to truth and Sang means assembly.

Bhaja Govindam Verse 9 -
Satsangatve Nissangatvam Nissangatve Nirmohatvam
Nirmohatve Nischalatatvam Nischala Tatve Jeevan Mukti

The company of learned persons who have realized truth will lead to the path of non-attachment. This again leads to freedom from delusion. When there is NO delusion, one perceives the reality. The experience of reality leads to a feeling that I am not the body and mind, although I have a body and mind.

The attachment towards "myself" or "mine" like relations, wealth, bodily pleasures etc will make humans chained as a slave and the moment he comes out of his attachment, he becomes the free man to be able to attain his goal without any distraction. Our mind always has a tendency to get fascinated by the objects of the world. Then it creates a desire within to own up those objects. Once the objects are acquired and become one’s own, more desires are generated. This leads to a kind of obsession which distracts him from ultimate goal. Adi Sankara has advised us the most effective way out to come out of this dilemma is to seek the company of saints or the Satsang. Satsang means assembly of devotees. In Satsang you meet sages ho have realized the Self and transcended the material world of possessions and relations.

Satsang provides the right environment for detachment from the world of Maya (illusion), to cease his identity with body, mind and attain self-realization. Maya can be destroyed only by knowledge of Brahman. When Maya is removed, the truth that the individual soul is same as Brahman is realised.

BG 6.5
uddhared atmanatmanam
natmanam avasadayet
atmaiva hy atmano bandhur
atmaiva ripur atmanah

A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

"Mana eva manusyanam karanam bandha moksayoh." - "As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind." ~ Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
bandhaya visayasango muktyai nirvisayam manah.
"For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation."