Question: How can we be free?
What do you mean by being free?
Like we can do anything, anytime?
Is that the freedom you are looking for? Think, who is stopping you then.
Well, actually no one. When I want to do something, what comes in mind is, what would happen, what would others think, what if my partner does not like, if I am doing right?
So it is in your mind. I am not against freedom. But do we really want that freedom? On the name of freedom, we do not want to create a chaos. We are free. If we had not realized this, then, we should have during the lockdown or may be before India received freedom. I have read, in certain areas in South, women of lower castes of that time were not even allowed to cover their upper body parts. Well, I would say that was lack of freedom, where you cannot even cover your body as per your choice. What we have now, is freedom. Youngsters have taken the word freedom to a different level, where they want to express their freedom by getting into self-destructive behavior.
Then what is freedom?
As per me, freedom is from own fears. Freedom is from own negative thoughts. Where we spend our energy wondering about what others are thinking, we break that pattern, we are free. When we are the prisoners of the past in our mind, but the past is over long back, freedom is to break that chain. Freedom is to live with peace and harmony in our mind rather than a chaos, so that we create that peace and harmony around us, that is freedom. I remember a lady, who told her friends, that they are not really her friends as they were not supporting her sadness. And that was her divorce which had happened 20 years back. Everyone wondered, how to do that. One gentleman wanted to punish his brother because he had cheated him in business 20 years back. I think they were the prisoners of past. One 23 years old boy always wondered how he could download more pirated softwares and then always wondered what if he would be caught. Well, he was the prisoner of own doings.
We need to sttain peace and harmony in our mind and we will be free. We feel tied up, because we are more worried about what’s happening around rather than whats happening inside us. When we will start thinking about what’s happening inside us, we will be free.
