The inner freedom is not so easily obtained.
Apparently, one is living in a free country, having access to all things bright and beautiful, good and bad and can do as we please, as long as we don't overtly break law!
Is that true freedom? are we really independent?
Some of us are chained to the idea of TOTAL FREEDOM and would not accept any good idea, just for the sake of opposing/their right to dissent/the freedom of expression!
so, some of us maybe be well and truly bonded to freedom! chained by the need to be/look/feel free all the time!
on the other hand, if the inner self is in control, deliberates all options, with a sense of responsibility to oneself and the world around us, then one can truly be free.
The farmer who sits contented at the end of a long, hard day, and looks forward to a good meal, with his wife and kids, and a very unglamorous existence, may be free in the best sense of the term, both physically and mentally. He has no benchmarks to follow/no set path to aspire to!
he is so one with nature!
of course, he loses this independence in these modern times, with GE crops, et. al!
he is truly free, he has a wonderful interdependent relationship with nature and his fellow human beings.
He serves nature well and nature serves him well!
of course, all of us are thankful to the farmers for our daily annam!
Isiliye to Lal Bahadur Shashtri ji ne kahan tha :
JAI JAWAN, JAI KISAN!
jai ho!
Jai hind!
as we wrestle with the dilemma of apparent and true freedom!
one of the remarkable achievements of bharatvarsha has been that even though we were an occupied nation for centuries, through our intellectual brilliance, emotionally and spiritual resilience, we remained free inside! Nobody could invade our minds!
can the same be said in this 62nd year of independence, in the increasingly connected but not-so-free world?!
time will tell!
I am quietly confident that our resilient inner self will reassert itself, sooner rather than later!
thathastu!
tat tvam asi!
jai ho!
ganesh.
chennai.
7.27 p.m./15th August, 2008
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