Good morning friends. First of all what is freedom for you? For me, freedom is a self-realization or spiritual self fulfillment that is not incompatible with the existence of natural causes of the will act. If you have your freedom, you can do anything you want. You will feel that you fulfill all the things. How about you, how do you define freedom?
Is freedom a choice or bondage?
People imagine that they are free. If you look at yourself closely, it will become clear to you that you are bound. Most of us lead mechanical lives. Our perceptions, conclusions and beliefs are mechanical, too. So freedom in this scenario is no more than an illusion.
In order to be free, your functioning has to change from the lower states of consciousness to the higher states of consciousness. You are free to evolve, but if you are mechanical, you are not free.
Our inner nature is freedom. In fact, freedom is not the absence of bondage. If freedom is other than bondage, then freedom is bound by its freedom for it is free only in freedom and not in bondage.
Why are we not satisfied with life despite abundance?
Even though existence is in abundance, man is bound by poverty. Generally people are not prosperity consciousness, but are poverty consciousness. People operate from scarcity and not from abundance.
We are not satisfied with life as our level of being attracts a particular kind of life. Your life is like a small wheel and one is connected to bigger or smaller wheels. It is necessary that we disconnect from the smaller wheels of life and connect to the bigger ones. The smaller wheel represents name and fame, money, power… learn to disconnect. We are connected to them through our attitudes. There is a collective consciousness of small wheels and hence we are pulled by this consciousness into an abyss. Even wars are caused by these influences not necessarily by those who want war. – The Times of India
Satsang: Swami Sukhabodhananda
