Actually, the awareness of this emerges and then fades, like clouds rising and then disappearing into the shadows. Nevertheless, the awareness deepens day by day. Suddenly, one realizes, "Ah, I am free." One becomes aware of one's own existence, whether it's called the soul, Purusha, or something else; one realizes that one is free.
This kind of awareness has existed to some extent before, but it hasn't been explicitly expressed in words very often.
This is not merely intellectual understanding or action; it's the awareness of being. The awareness of being "a free being" transcends time and space to some extent, and it is because of this transcendence that the awareness of freedom is achieved.
Although this awareness itself transcends time and space, meaning it is not bound by the past, present, or future, nor by space, the individual consciousness (the so-called Jiva) in this current physical body has not had such awareness in the past. The awareness is likely to increase from the present towards the future. However, because this awareness transcends time and space, it has no tense and no spatial location. Of course, with my level of understanding, there are limitations in terms of tense and space. While it has qualities that are not bound by time and space, those qualities are limited. Therefore, I am not completely free from time and space, but I am free to some extent.
For example, people in the Vedanta school speak of the understanding of liberation (moksha) as "it has always been so" (meaning that everyone has always known and understood it). This expression may be confusing, but it becomes easier to understand if you distinguish between the individual sense of the Jiva and the sense of the Purusha that transcends time and space. From the perspective of the Jiva, which is limited and bound by time and space, time exists, so understanding exists from the present towards the future, and it is also limited in space. On the other hand, from the perspective of the pure spirit of the Purusha, it transcends time and space, so the understanding is itself beyond time and space. In theory, this is correct, and in terms of "understanding," it has always been so. However, the awareness of this does not become apparent until one has progressed spiritually to some extent.
Therefore, while the Purusha has always transcended time and space and can say "I have always known," in a situation where only the consciousness of the Jiva exists, that awareness cannot be consciously recognized, even if it was truly the case from the beginning. The way to achieve that awareness and reach a state of "understanding" is for the Jiva to purify itself, and when the purified Jiva and the Purusha become one through a kind of trinity, that "understanding" descends into conscious awareness, and since it transcends time and space from the perspective of the Purusha, it can be said that "I have always known."
The awareness of knowing the truth from the beginning, the awareness of having "knowledge" from the beginning, is, in fact, the group soul to which I belong, and the fundamental existence to which I belong knows this from the beginning, and that awareness has entered me. Since the influx of Purusha the other day, a new aura, like air, has gradually entered, and as the aura gradually settles, the awareness has deepened. Perhaps, as the aura gradually flows in, it settles and stabilizes, and the awareness deepens.
A part of the group soul to which I belong has entered me, and I have gained an understanding that "I am free," that "I have always been free." Therefore, even if that understanding is expressed as "it has always been so," it does not change my past self as a Jiva. My Jiva's conscious awareness of this "freedom" is from the present towards the future, but from the perspective of the Purusha, I am always free (moksha), and as the consciousness of the Purusha and the consciousness of the Jiva merge, the awareness of the Purusha permeates the Jiva, and as a result, I gain an understanding that "I have always been free." The Jiva was simply mistaken, and the true self, the Purusha, has always known that it is free. And that awareness descends into conscious awareness, and I realize, "Yes, I am free (moksha)."