“What is freedom?
Freedom comes from the experiential knowledge of our true nature, which is
already free. It comes from finding out that our real essence is the joyful
state of infinite consciousness that animates all of creation. To have the
experience of that silent witness is just to be. Then we are free. In this
state of freedom, we understand that life is the meaningful coexistence of all
opposite values. We may experience happiness or we may experience pain and
suffering, but we do not get attached to pleasure and we do not recoil in fear
of pain. In freedom, we even lose our fear of death, because the belief in
mortality is just a spell that we have cast upon ourselves.”
-Dipak
Chopra
(Book:Power Freedom and Grace)
According to
Mr.Dipak Chopra, to achieve true freedom is to get a total release from fear,
doubt, worry and concern. To live in the state of everlasting freedom is to
live a fearless life, full of total ease
and with complete sense of security. The individual self forever lives under
the hypnotic spell of illusions and delusions. This phony world of illusions
and delusions is what creates fear, insecurity and constant worries. To be
totally free and liberated from fear, worries and insecurities, we need to be
successful in transcending the state of illusions and delusions and forever
reside into the field of God. The field of Infinite consciousness continually
creates us, sustains us for a while and recycles us but for one reason, so that
we may get to realise the cause for human existence, start our spiritual
endeavours and abide in God forever. Once we forever reside into the area of
God or when we forever transcend the
world of illusions and delusions, we
shall get to realise that the existence of fear, doubt, worry and concern were
as transient and unreal as the leaves that wither from the trees in autumn and
that the abundant reservoir of fearlessness, security and easiness is our real
essence and generating these qualities, the real purpose for which we have been
born.
The only field of security
is the field of God or the fully awake Spirit. The material world is the field
of insecurity as it is an inefficient medium to cater to and fulfill each and
every of your needs and desires wheres the only secure field of complete
security is the Unified field as your wildest doubts, fear, worry, concern
vanish away the moment you transcend this abundanat spiritual reservoir. The
field of Infinite Grace or the most intelligent field of the fully awake Spirit
instills in us the complete feeling of security as everything starts becoming
and happening effortlessly, without any effort as we become residents of this
field of Reality. Once the fully awake Soul takes over, everything is plain
sailing. “Where is the need for insecurity when the fully awake soul starts the
effortless maneuver of all of your subjective and objective needs and wants? Do
you think we shall have any causes to feel insecure when the most Supreme Godhead starts transforming Himself
into the devotees devotee and starts taking in the reins of our life?”
The state of freedom makes
you the least anxious about the ways of the world and living your life and the
least concerned about the danger and insecurities of mortal coil. In fact, the
spiritual growth process starts your love affair with life and the moment you
transcend the Anahat is the time when the mortal game of continuous anxieties
are over and you start loving and living your life to the very fullest. In
other words, your life is now “Plain Sailing” and you are at total ease with
the whole of your life. The sub-conscious states of the human mind are the anxious states, the conscious levels
are the less anxious and the time of the journey for preparation to transcend
the state of freedom and the superconscious states are the moments when you are
totally in harmony with the totality of life.
There was a moment after my sixth month of meditation right till the
start of the fourth year when I suffered from a continuous onslaught of
recurring chronic anxieties. The more anxieties happened the more I enjoyed it
because I knew it was all a leela or play of God and that was the sole reason
why anxieties were happening. I started getting addictive to the play of Gods
leela, that of anxieties happening! The more anxieties happened the more
happier I became because deep inside I knew I was God’s precious child like all
of us and that I was only undergoing a great evolutionary period and that I
would be taken care of . I loved life and life loved me back. This was an
example of the sojourn of preparation to enter the superconscious states or the
conscious state when one is being prepared to love life and start living one’s
life to the very fullest and just imagine what superconscious states can do to
your morale!
“The state of freedom does not fear
anything, not even the fear of death.”
-Ashwas Thapa
The individual self lives in
fear whereas the Unbounded Self is free from the limitations of fear. Fear is
characteristic of the known and
fearlessness is the inborn quality
of the unknown. The individual self fears about losing his identity, his
weath, his health, about losing his partner, the respect of his children, his
job etc. All these fears that the individual self generates are transcended
once we succeed in travelling beyond the Anahat. The Unbounded Self does not
fear anything, not even the fear of death! Once the fear of death has been transcended all the minor sources of fear
does not hold ground any longer. Being grounded in the fearless ground of the
Self which makes us fearless about even death gets us ungrounded from all the
minor and major fears that we may have about life!
Conclusion:
“Life is plain
sailing, fearless and secure once we are permanent residents of the Unbounded
state of total freedom.”
-Ashwas Thapa
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