We human are the strange creation of all. We turn even our love to bondage. I receive wedding invitations from my friends, relatives and patient’s family. They invariably write in their wedding invitation letters that their daughter or son is going to be “bound with fetters of love.” We turn even love, which is utter freedom, into shackles. Love is freedom, so the right way to say it is that someone is going to be set free in love. But we say and do the opposite; we turn love into an imprisonment. Not that love is imprisonment, but we make it into one. The way we are, even death looks like captivity to us. The way we are, we turn life itself into a concentration camp.
On the other hand, he who lives in the present, in the moment, who among us lives without expectations and attachments and does his work without hope for reward or fear of punishment, whose action is like inaction and whose inaction is like action, who turns his whole life into a play- he turns even bondage into freedom. For such a person among us, action is freedom, love is freedom, living is freedom, living is freedom, life is freedom, and even death is freedom. For him everything is freedom.
It all depends on the way we are and we see the life. We carry both our slavery and freedom within us. If we begin to live without desire for the fruits of action, if we become responsible to ourselves and to the existence, if we trust life, then life for us will cease to be bondage. The life will be a blessing, a benediction. Such a person in us attains a life of freedom; he is free while living in this world. Such a life is possible here and now. And it totally depends on us!
Let us analyze more, later in the weeks to follow … until then let us spend some time contemplating on the same.
Wishing you good health & happiness,
Dr. Dwarakanath, Director, Mitran foundation- the stress management people
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