Sunday, July 26, 2009

FREEDOM AND BANDAGE IN ACTION .

The great thinker educationist and philosopher J.J.Rousseau writes - '' you are born free but everywhere you are in shackles / chains . '' if you take an action of your choice , you are free but when you have taken that one action you are bound or under bandage of the result of that action . one action taken , is being affected by many factors , say , uncountable and bound you to limit your freedom to next or the sama action taken earlier . see ! one example , very simple - one asks you to one of your two legs to keep up and you kept your left leg up but now you can not keep the right one up , if asked to do so while you put the first down . you were free to make a choice between the right and left but after one action taken you were not free to make another choice because of the result of first action .
We are living in a society at large , in a world and even in whole creation and we all are the part of this whole . so we are partly free and wholly bound . individual freedom has meaning but little . Lord Baudha talked of emancipation of all . your liberation , your freedom , your education , your prosperity , your wealth , health and happiness is mere dream and really a feeling of foolishness . since i came to learn Lord Baudha and Theory of Oneness of Vedanta and understanding of Mahatma Gandhi and today i feel and know in full that while there is a mean , a criminal , an ignorant , a poor and an ill ; i am all that as i am the part of that society where in all these evils exist . and then i feel the work before us , human being is far than farthest and greater than the greatest .
Therefore we should not work as we have to help others , weak and poor and ignorant and ill but we should work with an understanding that we are the part of these evils and we have to work together , to fight together and to achieve the goal of goodness and freedom together as one . i am not free , rich , happy and all etc . while others are not .
Now one of these days in our society /state and nation , individuals are trying to gather power and pelf not thinking of others . our leaders not in almost all cases but in many cases in India are blindly hankering after money and fake power. they have neither fear nor shame nor face but trying their best to win the worthless race . they have no understanding of their double death that goes unwept , unhonored and unsung . these poor people; poor in mind and understanding , (although they think they are rich and wise say clever and cunning ) are free to gamble but do not know that one who gambles is sure to lose and the call of wisdom they do not hear is -- if you do not want to lose , do not gamble please . they , again, do not know that in each and every game people win or lose except in gambling wherein all lose , who play .
It is sad and thoughtfully sad that our Leaders of these days( not all but many ) want to avail and enjoy the freedom of wolf who is angry with the shepherd because he has driven it away from the throat of ship (common people called praja of the tantra = democracy ) and denounce the shepherd as destroyer of it's freedom to kill the ship .
We want freedom for all and equal and till we achieve this , our fredom and democracy is but a fooling about ourselves . therefore be united and try to fail so called freedom of few by peaceful means and democratic ways .

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