Swatantrya: You Were Born Free, So Who Imprisoned You?

Everyone is unique, everyone is an individual and everyone is free. This is the core truth and instead of us imposing anything on any individual we should let everyone be as free as possible.

But my question is: Should one act from societal expectations even growing up? My point of view is many people are suffering precisely because of this. They are not doing what they want to but instead what’s expected of them and in this process they are kinda dying from inside.

So what I think is the need of the hour is to let swabhava mature into adulthood too. Be a child even as you grow up, just a bit responsible.

One should understand that everyone is free like them and so they should respect everyone’s freedom and look for ways to fulfil their desires, dreams, everything. And after that has been done, from the point of totality, total satisfaction, swadharma will come naturally. They will automatically contribute to society because of their innate natural talents.

This is my core philosophy, Swatantrya or Total Freedom.

The universe has freely manifested itself, this whole earth, and it has freely confined itself into finite beings like us. With the grasp of this knowledge we should follow our inner voice, our inner nature and explore what’s inside us. Keep watering our seeds and let them flower completely.

We have become so obsessed with how one should live, how one should behave, what one should achieve that we have forgotten the most important thing: that we are alive and free to experience this existence.

In reality we are never fixed. Every second of our lives we are changing, choosing, becoming something new. Today I might believe something, tomorrow I might discover something entirely different. Why should I remain a prisoner of yesterday's understanding?

We should cultivate a sense of strength which helps us admit that we were wrong in the past and could be wrong in the future too.

Life is truly lived by people who are courageous, free, open, rebellious, creative, joyous, adaptable and embrace uncertainty.

And remember one thing: your freedom is as precious as the freedom of every other individual. We should be responsible and discourage those who try to harm another person's freedom.

That is the Aryavarta I dream of. A world where individuals are encouraged to discover their own nature rather than spend their lives becoming what others expect them to be.