Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Freedom

You must have heard about how money is defined – money is what money does.
The same way freedom is what freedom does – and the more you give it the more you get it.
Freedom is not independent like money – for money there is an independent money, rupee or dollar or pound – and anyone see and identify it. In a country wherever you take this note or coin people will identify that this is money – so it’s having independent identity.
What happens with freedom is it’s always associated with something or the other – freedom of country, freedom of relationship, freedom of money.
If you notice that it’s freedom “of” something and not freedom “from” something that I said. So there can be freedom “from” something – and I’m not interested on that right now.
Earlier I wrote that the more you give freedom the more you get.
Let’s see what I said – say suppose I said the more freedom I give to money, the more freedom money gives me – it does not say the more freedom I give to money, the more money I get. So what does it mean then? – let’s explore.
Long back I asked my father if I like sweets there are two ways to stop it – either I can eat lots of sweets till I start disliking sweets or I can simply abstain from it. In both the ways the desired result is gotten – so which way is better? At that time, my father told me the second option is better as in first option, I’ll start eating sweets after few days or months when the effect of eating huge sweets is gone. But in second way I can always restrain from it.
After so many years, I get that neither of the options actually work. I don’t have any freedom from sweets in both the ways – sweet is actually what I’m eating all the times – in my conversation – first by knowing that I can eat sweet any time – second way knowing that I can’t eat sweet, so ending up eating it. So what’s the way out? Here comes the question of freedom – to be free of the relationship of sweet. How? That you need to find out – I can tell you, but I’m sure it’ll not make any difference. Just a clue – you can still eat a lots of sweets and still have freedom from sweet.
In the name of freedom of anything people strive a lot, get that and end up as a slave to that. You need freedom of money, slog for it, earn it and become a slave of it.
The trick is give freedom to sweets and sweets will give you freedom. You take it as absolute truth this works for everything. In this freedom you can still earn a lot, and still end up being free.
Now you may ask – why should I’ve freedom of anything – and the answer to it is it gives you a huge freedom in your way of life and choice in life to live. Just consider for a moment that you are free of all relations, of money, of sex – how it’ll be to live like that – I experienced its bliss. Still I can have anything or nothing – and end up free from that.