We generally want things in this world as a limited being I shall enjoy a higher heaven and that's what traps me in some sorrow. eagerness must be there and the second one is grace grace it is the Guru's grace it is God's grace so grace is very powerful but you must want it also, says Ramakrishna. Close to liberation means those who go to Brahmaloka yes my question about thatso things to me that if a person were to in some sense remember that if I could remember many lives I would have been able to get out of hell.
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 22-23 and Mantra 12.