What Does It Mean To Be Truly Free?
Rishimukh|April 2020
Whether you accept it or not, watch it or not, life is an act of ‘letting go’. It started from the moment you were born. You let go of the womb and came into this world.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
What Does It Mean To Be Truly Free?

It is a natural tendency of every human being wanting to be free! Freedom is not a luxury. It is a necessity. Not just Human beings, even animals want freedom.

Babies want freedom. If you tie a scarf on the neck of a baby, it just wants to remove it. You put a chain on a baby’s neck and the baby will want to pull it out. It is only the adults who adorn their necks with jewelry, children want freedom, and they don’t want any restriction. That is why they throw their hands up and down, totally free! Wanting freedom is innate to human beings and animals. Every life wants freedom, and liberation or moksha, which is nothing but freedom.

Freedom is a natural desire in every human being but when the mind gets so muddled up in unnecessary day-to-day things, it forgets that it wants freedom. It is as good as someone who wants to sleep but has forgotten how to sleep.

WHAT IS FREEDOM?

Freedom is not running away from situations and circumstance. Sometimes, a situation is stifling or unpleasant, and we run away from it and think that is freedom, but it is not so!

Freedom means:

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