We all seek Freedom

I think that what all people want more than anything, is to be free. Freedom is free, yet why is it such a rare commodity? Why are so few people free? Let’s define what it means to be free… 

Freedom is being Free from the emotions that create inner turmoil and give sleepless nights. Free from people who either dictate or control you, or free from people who think you cannot live without. Free from all external circumstances or situations. This means your internal state is independent of an external circumstance. This is freedom. 
Free from all desires or needs. In other words, your life feels complete now. Obtaining a thing or object is not necessary. If a desire is really strong, then fulfill it. Soon you will realise that no desire brings fulfillment as much as love and service to humanity. There will come a time where you will enjoy the meal just as well, with salt or without salt. This is freedom. You enjoy life with or without the sensual (senses) pleasures or desires. 
Free to speak as you wish, to express yourself fully in everyway without the thought of being violated or discriminated in any way. Free to do as you wish, as long as that action does not involve consciously hurting another life. 

Why do you want to be free? Freedom brings peace. With peace comes love, joy, bliss and contentment. In fact, if you have any one of the above, then you have all automatically. Just as when you have any one of the vices, greed, anger, lust, jealousy or envy, then you have all. 
I am taken back to my childhood of a programme called Captain Planet. In this programme, 6 kids with 6 rings containing the energy of the elements (earth, fire wind, water, air, heart) with these combined, they created Captain Planet. You also are creating Light consciousness or Darkness consciousness depending on which “elements” you harbor inside you. 

Make a list of all the things you are attached too. All the things or people you believe you cannot live without. All the things ot people that you believe bring you discomfort when you do not have it or are not with them. 
Next: Let it / them go. 
You are now free. 
Just let it all go 

Being free and letting go does not mean you isolate yourself from everything and everyone. It means your happiness is simply unaffected by the presence or absence of the thing or person. 

A hot air balloon can only advance upward when the extra bags or weight is removed. In fact, the balloon rises automatically. So too, when you remove all excess baggage from your own life, spiritual evolution and rise in consciousness becomes very easy. 
Similarly it is easy to run from one terminal of an airport to another with one small hand luggage or none than to carry your 30 kg suitcase with you. Not only does it slow you down, but it makes you tired and uncomfortable. Live your life by travelling light. Get rid of all the things weighing you down. Just make a conscious choice to let them go. 

Bless you. 

Love, 
Mohan H