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Freedom: A realized perspective

I always used to think why all people complain about the "freedom." Youngsters complain on breaking their freedom to marry the one they wish, to choose their interested job and course, to travel to places they wish, aged ones complain on breaking their freedom in certain areas. Kids have their own complaints on freedom. But, actually "can anyone break other's freedom ?." Is it that much easy? I think NO. There is no meaning in telling that I lost my freedom. It's not the freedom which is getting denied but, the ability to view it in a different angle by ourselves. It's only our feeling that we are in the center of nasty rules or we are mere puppets under the control of others and so on. Freedom is actually what we make. It's a vast state of mind. We are the one who make and break our freedom. 

I know a lady who got divorced with her husband for not let her go to her own home. The spark begins when her husband didn't allow her to go for a reunion in her college arranged after 6 years. Then the fire started glowing each time he pulls her from doing something or from going somewhere even with her cousin brothers. Cultural differences were also there between them. His dream wife is the one who is in saree wearing the pure thaali and divine sindhoor with hair up to the feet. But she was a lady in jeans with straightened short hair believing only in the love and understanding of minds rather than the dressing and life style protocols put forwarded by her husband. Finally they submit mutual petition a 4 months ago. The case is going on. There are many cases similar to this. A lion share of people, especially girls are getting depressed because of what they claim as "freedom." 

Mind always demands freedom. Imagine that you loves to be in a place with someone you wish. The moment you imagines, a desire will start growing in the mind.  For a moment your mind will be filled with only that particular desire. The problem begins when you start thinking over it. Your mind will initially says "I want..." Then the mind started murmuring as "I should..." Finally you starts comparing the situation without fulfilling the desire and the opposite situation. If there is a previous experience of the same desire you will start rewinding your memory. This memory will again compel you to make a desire of it again and again. This is the point at which your mind will fall in the belief that "I lost freedom." 

 


This false belief will again nurtures the memory which in turn is a manure of the desire and this is a cyclic process from which we can't step out. The very demand of the repetition of a previous experience makes you disappointed. Then you will hate others and at the extreme level you will hate yourself. The thought that you can never get back those happiness and joy is actually breeding a frustration or more precisely "fear" (Fear of losing the one which you desires) in your mind. Holding on to these thoughts is actually destroying the real freedom. 

If you wish to do something or to go somewhere and you are compelled not to go there by anyone else, have you ever viewed it in another angle? It's only physically you are stopped from being there or doing something. Your mind can be freed by not memorizing the previous experiences and thus can fly high and no one have any power over us. 

In short, though a person is pulled away from his or her freedom, keep in mind that the soul of mind cannot be caged. It can be made fly by positively thinking over the memories without allowing the frustration or fear to rule the mind.

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