How to achieve true freedom

 It is a natural tendency of every human being to want to be free. Freedom is not luxury, it is a necessity. Not just human beings, but even animals want 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 this is what freedom is, but that is not so. 

Freedom means:

😇 Being unphased by circumstances, situations and the people around you

😇 Being free from your own emotional garbage

😇 Being free from the jungle of your thoughts that bother you

😇 Being free from all the entanglement that you harbor in your head

😇 Being free from fear and anxiety

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Freedom means breaking free from the patterns of life that cause suffering…When you are either for something or against something, you cannot be liberated. If you are against something, know that you have no freedom from it..Anything that produces boredom in you is to be dropped just like you would drop poison. But, how?

There are five guiding principles that help you drop it. 👉Kshama or forgiveness; 👉aarjava or sincerity; 👉daya or compassion; 👉tosha or contentment and 👉satya or truth.

Freedom means having a say on your inner tendencies and external influences. Only awareness and impeccable devotion can bring this freedom.

✅Let go of cravings and aversions

✅Meditate

✅Reduce your wants

✅Develop a sense of contentment

✅Have Faith

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Freedom from bondage is independence. We should understand bondage. There are two types. One is a ‘raksha’ bandhan. A bondage of love. The other kind is that which makes us feel suffocated. That which suffocates, and stops growth, is bondage. India became free from foreign rule, and people thought we’re independent now. But slavery hasn’t ended now. Until we respect ourselves, our culture, our capabilities, we cannot consider ourselves independent. We must be financially, socially, intellectually independent. On top of all this, there is an inner independence.

As India celebrates 75th Independence Day, let us strive for inner freedom. We should endeavour to make our minds independent of cravings and aversions. Disliking someone is not independence

Now we have to fight for a different kind of freedom. Freedom from ignorance, from impurity, both inside and outside. 

Ignorance can be uprooted only with spiritual knowledge and literacy... Everyone should get active, and do something creative. When we get rid of lack, ignorance and impurity, then we’re truly independent. Let us bring a wave of happiness in the country. Only then we can reap the benefits of independence.”

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Jai gurudev 🙏🏻

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