Vande Mataram!

Freedom:

I grew up in India and remember getting a national holiday on Aug 15th every year for Indian Independence Day. Honestly I was happy to get a day off, not thinking too much about it since I was born in the egalitarian 80’s, and independence just meant another word in the dictionary.

Work took me to different countries in Europe and Asia. That’s when it occurred to me what freedom really meant. In no other country in the world leaving India (for me) that you feel real freedom, to do and act without fear. Freedom I then realised is a privilege.

What is freedom then?

Freedom lies in the mind and action, and to be truly free there has to be a harmony in thought and action. To act in really freedom is to nurture free spirit. Freedom gives liberty and empowers people to dare.

If this is what freedom is, are we really free?

We the people have defined boundaries for ourselves, built systems of law and order, formed public opinion and created objects of moral and legal authority for governance to moderate the so called liberty that we all deserve- freedom. Morality is a tool to curb freedom and fear it’s a commonly traded currency.

Unfortunately there is no real freedom in action; freedom today is a limited to the mind to thoughts alone. We need a world without fear a world with responsible action, a world filled with love, peace and happiness and freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of action.