The Concept of Freedom

Are we free? What is freedom to you, to me and to all of us? Is it the absence of control or the lack of direction; a search, a path to be followed or just an urge to break open. Or is it just an adamancy to be able to have control and be the maker or the beaker. Well for all of these freedom is all about oneself, about aloneness and oneness. But is freedom a concept of the mind or an existing reality that is achievable for those who crave for it. The five elements of nature: - earth, water, air, fire and aether all are simultaneously in our being, for a living creature is not born bit by bit. The moon beams that seem to dance on still waters are the ones that cause the white horses to run on the ocean floor. The forest spread finds anchorage in the flattened earth and as it grows the roots go only deeper. The apple’s so called ‘free’ fall is also a myth, it is a slave to gravity serving its notice period on the branch before being put down by his master. The blowing winds are only a company to this terrestrial sphere that’s meant to circle a wandering star. The sun cannot stop burning, do you think if would have been free it would be blazing. The essence of us is so interwoven that freeing them would be like questioning your own existence. How complex it is to describe freedom, possibly for every action or inaction it has a new meaning all together. If one says he is free to choose his way of leading a life he probably is manipulating, because in life one action leads to the other and so nothing is independent. Every action taken by you is a by product of certain thoughts given to you by someone through some means. And that is the reason it is said that life works out in the process of life itself. In these entangled lives and decisions your action is only a speckle and the idea of have taken it independently is only a fantasy to savor your mind. So this concept of freedom is something that has been used very loosely by all of us. I call it as a concept as the idea of a free will or mind is an intellectual illusion that we create to have the satisfaction of atleast ruling something in this world, be it as inherent as your self