Freedom

Freedom is our birthright and yet we crave for it. A short story narrated by Osho conveys this truth.Once a man, a staunch fighter for freedom was travelling in the mountains. In the course of his travel he halted in a ...

Though the goal of a seeker is spiritual freedom (moksha) he must remember that unless a series of 'lower' freedoms (Freedom from body, freedom from mind, freedom from intellect)are achieved, he cannot get spiritual freedom. The 'lower' freedoms are the means, ...

Every one of us has been endowed with an intellect (buddhi), but only a few use it well. And even those who use it are seldom able to utilize it fully. The tremendous powers of the intellect remain hidden — suppressed, ...

Swami Tyagananda talks about freedom from mind following freedom from body in the previous section.'It is the mind that causes bondage, and it is the mind that liberates man,' says the Upanisad. ( Amrtabindu Upanisad) Sounds paradoxical. How can one ...

Continued from the previous part (Spiritual Freedom)Death does not give you freedom from the body, it just substitutes one body for another. What is meant by 'freedom' in this context is mastery over the demands of the body. The body ...

The concept of spiritual freedom, therefore, must be clearly distinguished from the idea of freedom as it is commonly understood in daily life. Only when one begins to feel like the convict described at the beginning of this article, when the ...

Imagine a convict, hands and feet bound in chains, locked up in a cell of a tight security prison. He is serving a life sentence. Time has come to a standstill for him. He's all alone, with no companions save ...

Unity of Awareness- Ishopanishad“Yastu sarvaan bhootaani aatmani eva anupasyati sarva bhuteshu chatmaanam tato no vyugupsate”He, who constantly sees all manifestations (an objects and individuals in the world) verily in the Supreme-Self, and the Supreme-Self in all manifestations, thereafter from experiencing this ...

Continued From Part II Passion for PossessionPassion is craving for possession. It is becoming possessive of the world around me. The world is mine as long as I do not possess it! But, the moment I start possessing it, it ...

Freedom : In space outside me "Freedom from hunger! Freedom from disease! Freedom from illiteracy! - Freedom from economic slavery! " All these slogans, I have heard from many platforms! And, I have understood them to an extent!!"They want freedom from ...

Freedom is vast while slavery is small. A short Sufi story reveals the truth.A man once gifted a lovely golden bowl with a beautiful fish in it to a Sufi mystic. The mystic felt sorry for the fish and released it ...

In real life, we always look to express our love towards others in some tangible way. Only if love is demonstrated in tangible form, it is considered to be love nowadays.True love is like a communion. It is a resonance between ...