The Wise strive for Freedom

Swami Vivekananda's comments on Liberation:

Birth and death are in nature, not in you. Yet the ignorant are deluded; just as we under delusion think that the sun is moving and not the earth, in exactly the same way we think that we are dying, and not nature. These are all, therefore, hallucinations. Just as it is a hallucination when we think that the fields are moving and not the railway train, exactly in the same manner is the hallucination of birth and death. When men are in a certain frame of mind, they see this very existence as the earth, as the sun, the moon, the stars; and all those who are in the same state of mind see the same things.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5, Verses 14 – 16:

The Lord takes neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, thereby beings are deluded.
-Gita, Ch.5, Verse 15.

But to those whose ignorance is destroyed by the
knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme (God).
-Gita, Ch.5, Verse 16.

Neither agency nor actions does the Lord create
for the world, nor union with the fruits of actions.
But it is Nature that acts.
-Gita, Ch.5, Verse 14.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, Verses 50-51:

Endowed with wisdom (evenness of mind), one casts off in this life both good and evil deeds; therefore, devote thyself to Yoga; Yoga is skill in action.  

The wise, possessed of knowledge, having abandoned the fruits of their actions, and being freed from the fetters of birth, go to the place which is beyond all evil.  

From the Mahabharata:

Whatever acts, good or bad, the individual self does in a former body, have certainly to be enjoyed or endured by him. By such enjoyment and endurance former acts are exhausted, and other acts, again, accumulate, till the inner self has succeeded in acquiring a knowledge of the duties included in that contemplation which leads to Emancipation. Regarding this, I shall tell thee those acts by which the inner self, while coursing through a repeated round of re-births, becomes happy.