People strive for freedom, but most of them are not free. You can seek freedom all your life and die, remaining a slave. Slaves of what? Your passions, habits, desires. Including the desire for freedom …
It is difficult to find a person who does not want to be free. Freedom attracts and excites, while its acquisition is usually associated with certain conditions. For example, liberation from something with the acquisition of any goods or material values. In most cases, freedom is associated with money. It is enough to receive a certain amount of millions, and a person will receive true freedom. She will be able to manage her time, fulfill desires. But will he be truly free? There are many billionaires in the world and even more millionaires - are they free? They devote most of their time to business, worries about how not to lose the wealth they have acquired. Instead of some worries and fears, others appear. Rich people, as one, talk about the fact that wealth alone does not make you happy.
Desires are the main obstacle to the search for freedom. They make a person unfree, tormenting him with the lack of the opportunity to satisfy them, or driving him onto the path of their realization. As long as a person has desires, he is not free, and this is the basis of the foundations in the search for freedom. Moreover, while a person is looking for freedom, he will not find it, because the very desire to find it will separate him from it. This is a very subtle and important point that must be realized. The desire to gain freedom is necessary, but at some stage you will have to get rid of it too.
But is it possible to free oneself from desires? And what happens if it succeeds? You can free yourself from desires, but this is a very long and really difficult process. If this succeeds, a person not only gains freedom, he becomes truly happy. The world is no longer obscured from it by the phantasmagorias created by the mind, because the thinking process stops. Don't be intimidated by this - try to understand what you are thinking about during the day. You constantly grind some events, conversations with someone, think about some completely unimportant things in your mind. Imagine that you have lost all the thoughts that have arisen since the beginning of this day. Now assess, have you really lost something of value? No. But behind these thoughts you really missed something very important - a free, unclouded perception of the world. When the internal dialogue stops, a person not only becomes happy, but acquires the opportunity to enjoy the world around him. Remember the last time you admired the sky, bubbling water, green foliage, stars? There is simply no time left for this, a person lives his life in a senseless bustle. Even having made billions of dollars, he still leaves this world the same as he came, without the opportunity to take something material with him. Realize this moment - the pursuit of a beautiful life, wealth and prosperity really does not give anything. On the contrary, it interferes with a person, obscures true values from him - that for which he came into this world.
So, freedom is really achievable, but for this a person needs to free himself from himself. This is a very difficult process, but it brings a person true wealth - freedom, happiness, awareness of his true divine nature. All the trash of consciousness leaves, crumbles like leaves from a tree. Only the true, the present remains. This process is known as enlightenment. Enlightenment is an exit to a new, higher level of being. Very often at this level, a person exhibits unusual abilities. And this is very logical - now, having freed himself from the ego, he will be able to dispose of them rationally, for the benefit of the world around him.
