Sitting
on the edge of the cliff with his eyes gazing above on the starry universe ,his
inner soul gets wet wit divine joyous tears just to feel the fact that he is a
part of that vast majestic mystic shining existence.And he peeks down below and
can see the city in silence with bright blocks of lights stacked above one
another, flocks of human running across the street,childrens playing in the
distant just to realize how infinitesimally small each activity and things
feels when compared to the beautiful vastness he witnessed above. He now wants
to meet the angel of freedom ,absolute freedom and wishes some sort of
spaceship shall carry him into the vastness though it was not possible.Slowly
with the bright visions of the vastness his eyes closes down and lifts him from the cliff ,then to the space
and to the stars leaving behind his mortal shell.
The
idea of absolute freedom seems to be of vague to me. As freedom cannot be
measured in degree but can only be realized on comparative terms, the idea
becomes subjective. Our outward material existence can never attain absolute
freedom and a try to do so shall result in chaos and conflict with other
people’s idea of freedom. Hence restrictions which are a summation of all those
conflicting domains are imposed leaving behind only those freedoms which do not
infringe on other people’s freedom. Freedom as such can be thought in its
absolute state but can never be practiced in its absoluteness.
On
the contrary a deep reflection on inner soul perhaps gives a ray of hope that
such a state can truly be achieved. I had a firm believe that what becomes of a
human being is a result of circumstances and environments through which he has
been exposed to and there is no escape from that. But gradually it became clear
that a person is also influenced by how his inner core is coping up with
circumstance and environment.
We
perceive every idea, thoughts, things and beings through our eyes and minds by
means of sensation and feeling that can only be seen through ourselves and we
may actually never know the elements in its entirety or it may be different in
the eyes of another human. The idea of every essential elements like happiness,
sorrows , suffering, excitement etc in outward material existence is
comparative and hence absolute state cannot be achieved but in inner spiritual
world these may attain absolute state as inner happiness ,sorrows and all are
practices and processes that can only
be perceived if we open bare our bodily existence.
There
is always an objective representation of an idea ,feelings, emotions etc. and
in modern civilization every idea or feeling is more and more represented by an
object or thing. Hence the ideas, feelings, emotions etc like objects become
comparative and considering the vastness of material existence in this world, the
domain of comparison becomes larger and larger.
A
well built cottage in some parts of the world may be an objective
representation of well being, success, luxury, happiness etc. and similarly a
massive bungalow in another part of the urban world may reflect the same. The
environment , surroundings and circumstances around these two contrasting
living blocks throws upon a state of objective comparison on the eyes of the
inhabitants and in comparative degree based on the benchmark of existing
housing block in the surrounding the idea of success, happiness etc is
perceived. Now though the building blocks may be of huge contrast but a study
on the inhabitants will show that the fulfillment of purpose does not differ
greatly as their objective representation. In fact and ironically the sensation
of happiness may be more in the cottage blocks as the degree of comparison is
limited in that surrounding whereas the comparitive element in that urban space
are changing frequently and going into vastness. But in both the cases there is
never a state of absoluteness in freedom of happiness, suffering ,emotion etc
as these ideas precedes objects or things.
In
our journey towards absolute freedom it is perfectly clear that the outer
bodily existence can only attain and cherish certain freedoms bestowed upon
them by the authority through carefull study of conflicts of interest. Now for
a human being to attain absolute freedom the doors of inner spiritual world has
to be opened .
To
realize what absolute freedom may look like it shall be necessary to create a
situation where a human being is robbed of all his freedoms for an indefinite
time such that now his only aim will be to survive ,a state of primitive
existence and survival where he has to fight for his hunger . A originally
primitive man shall survive ,learn and adapt to the situation and shall carry
on. But a modern man will soon get tired out and attain a state of shock.For
modern man the idea of future and hope plays a vital role for survival and
their very absence will make his present existence meaningless. Thus his inner
self will die before his outward existence.
In such conditions when man is robbed
off from his freedom till an indefinite time, the only escape will be shedding
his bodily existence and flowing ahead through his inner conscious and spirit
and a contemplation of actual soul of happiness and suffering. The happiness
and suffering that has been in existence since eternity but in course of earth
history being separated from man’s soul by constantly assigning them a value
derived from objects. Now through his inner world illuminated man does not need
any material representation to any emotion and thus diminishing material
competition ,he can now directly touch the souls of happiness ,suffering ,excitement,
grief ,madness ,trance etc. His life now transforms into a purpose where he question
his existence, finds answer to them, creates meaning and finds freedom through
his new created meanings, virtues and conscious.
