Freedom may be viewed as an external process propelled
by some internal mechanism to convert the process itself into a state that we
call freedom, Moksha or emancipation. The bad news is that the process being
external, much influenced by the external world, may imprison the freedom and
put it in a cage. All of us are born free, but, most of us die in captivity.
Why is it that we lack sufficient
confidence in the magnitude and maneuverability of our internal driving forces,
and are overawed and overwhelmed by the domineering influences of the external
world? Surprisingly, the answer to this question is very simple. We give most
of the time of our lives to thinking about the external world, and hardly any
time to contemplate about the strength of our internal mechanism.
The prayers, remembering the God, Smaran
or Sumiran are meant for building up confidence in our internal strengths
and not for getting involved in wishful thinking about possessing attractive
and influential external things in life. We are very casual and hurried about
drawing inferences about the process and the state; and the intangible and the tangible;
notwithstanding our firmed up experiences about how a multitude of right efforts
and habits favorably influence a desired outcome.
Freedom or Moksha we all look for,
but how many of us support our internal mechanism to realize a state of freedom
in this life and beyond it?
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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