Freedom always comes with a cost

I was hoping to write on what it takes to live in Freedom. We need to understand the word "Freedom" analyzing its meaning. Until I read the book "Freedom" by OSHO, my vision on the word was a blurred one. I knew "Freedom" as liberation from something. For example, India got the freedom from British. This is the only meaning of the word I knew until I read the book. But OSHO, in his book, is explaining another perspective. He makes the meaning complete. Few of us may also know "freedom" to speech, "freedom" to write, "freedom to choose our own lives" and so on. Once again, many of do not understand that the meaning of "Freedom" (first and second) is always interconnected. "Freedom" is not complete if we do not exercise the freedom in both forms. I feel "freedom from" is the basic form of freedom and "freedom for" is an elevated form. While the "freedom from" is basic, non-slave, human form. "Freedom for" is visionary and humanity form. When we say we want freedom, we need to understand the hidden and real meaning. Freedom is self centric. It starts as a self centric process but it has to conclude for a bigger cause.

For the past few days, I am following articles in Dinamalar by one and only Dr Kalam. He is one of the very people who understand "Freedom". In India, we have freedom to speak, write and do. This is the basic form. But leveraging the basic form, Dr. Kalam is trying to transform India. He is aware that he has freedom to do so many things. But he uses all those freedom for vision - transforming India. Dr. Kalam is living example for applying freedom and achieving vision. He uses his freedom in both ways "freedom from" and "freedom for". "Freedom from" is freeing oneself from something which is childish. But "freedom for" is something magnificient and responsible. The people who exercise freedom in both forms have become role models to the world.

I would like to explain how freedom is broken by human. Some years back, there was an article by Mr Narayanamurthy, then CEO of Infosys. He was pointing out how the freedom was exploited. We are fred from salvary but we are exploiting the "free from slavary". This freedom is like coconut given to dog. He doesn't know what to do with the coconut but just roll on the floor.

When the "freedom" is given or when you are liberated from something, we have to understand that there is no supervisior and our wellness is in our hands. Now we cannot go and complain the people who ruled us. We got freedom and it is our responsibility to shape up and elevate our lives. We need to take care our needs and fulfil our ambitions. When we understand freedom in both forms, we will take only ten days (or ten hours) to become a transformed country.

The cost of the freedom is to exercise "freedom for" and be responsible.

Freedom to express, act and elevate

I am very happy to be part of the wonderful world at the current time where there is a revolution in information technology. Web 2.0 as a technology has helped countless people to connect with their closed ones and friends. The collaborative applications like blogs, CMS and social networking sites have made this world a global village and anyone from a corner of this world can communicate with the other one in no time. There are so many human beings using these platforms to render the service to others by just expressing their thoughts. For expressing the thoughts, blogs are ultimate tool. It is like a personal diary and if you are open, there will be a growth in your very being. 

I strongly believe that the thoughts make human. The quality of thoughts decides the quality of the action and the action projects itself as habits and then as the character. If one can fine tune the thought process and think in a right way, the life will be more enriching and as OSHO says, each one will understand the death is like a your wardrobe. You move from one life to another life. If you are one of the gives who do not believe in rebirths, the way you think decides where you will be. The thoughts we quite often think becomes an obsession that go to subconscious mind and manifest itself as actions. When your thoughts are negative, you obsessed with it and you start loving to be a criminal and start doing crimes. If you want to be a bird, the same thought goes to your subconscious and eventually you become a bird. Simple logic, yet many people do not appreciate it.

Having read few books and trying to reflect the ideas, I sincerely feel that I can transform myself by following and experience my life. By experiencing, one will be able to appreciate the simple things in life and understand that these simple things are life. There are so many big concepts and they are big because of their simplicity. It is us who make life complicated by egos, thoughts and hatred. In the current scenario, the world needs peace. The world cannot be in peace unless each components have peace. By components, I mean countries, states, city, localities, streets, houses, family members, ourself, organs and thoughts. If you see, the source of violence is our mind and thoughts. By carefully reviewing the thoughts, we can change this place and transform. Planet Earth can be made God's Heaven.

Any transformation starts with fundamental things. The transformation is a sequence of action which is done passionately, gracefully and with full enthusiasm. For transformation, the man is the primary object however if one seeks transformation, the focus should not be on the transformation. The focus or rather thoughts should be on experiencing which sometimes called as awareness. If a flower has to blossom, each parts of the plant has a big role to play. The plant never focuses on blossoming neither the bud. Because, the plant plays it part and the the bud reaches to a point which it was never before. And this is the transformation. Similarly, in order for us to blossom our thoughts has a big role to play. If we do not fix the thoughts and fix everything surrounding the thoughts, it is like treating symtoms, it is like treating the disease. But preventing the disease is a great thing than treating the disease.

How one can fix the thoughts using blogs? First of all, you cannot fix the thoughts. You cannot command your mind to think this and think that. But if we have the awareness, the sixth sense and apply it correctly one can differentiate thoughts and give importance to the ones that deserves attention and deserves nurturing. Once the thoughts are nurturing the actions are corrected, habits will be health leading to a good character. Through blogs, one can express ones thoughts and get it reviewed by like minded folks. The blog or a group of blogs form a commune which forms a self guiding and self correcting platform leading to harmony.

If we use the platforms and collaborate, we will win friends and naturally this forms a basis for two streets, two states, two countries and the entire world to become a single big commune. That is when the peace will be ever lasting one. It may look simple on verbatim and hard to follow. But it is worth giving a try (or may be million tries until it succeeds). Come and join, I will be waiting for you.

Have a Great Day.