True Independence
The taste of independence cannot be truly enjoyed if we try to experience it without even attempting to understand the significance of it. To understand it in a broader way, first, we should attempt to know the true meaning of and underlying it.
Emancipation from a dictator’s tyranny is not the only plausible and whole meaning of the term ‘Independence’. And this alone cannot assure the pleasure of being our own self.
We start smelling the fragrance of genuine independence the moment we start realizing the fact that we are in fact being tyrannized by some abstract forces that dwell within us.
Here, the problem isn’t how to get rid of these forces but it is how to understand what those are and how they show a negative impact on us.
The moment we identify these negative shades of our personality residing within us, we will have attempted to understand the fact as to what it really means to be an independent individual.
We are born with forces that that either try to overpower us or show the way to atonement and reconciliation. All the human vices take up their form as formidable forces that take the control of our lifes' reins. We as human beings are destined to acquire these in the course of our life. We cannot get rid of them but we can elevate these vices into virtues.
We are always in an eternal dilemma..... we often question ourselves......What value do I have as an individual if I cannot speak what I want to speak, if I cannot do what I want to do, if I cannot design my life the way I want it to be!? Nobody would want to be restricted, to be confined, to be controlled, to be prevented from doing what they desire to do. Here comes a moment of divine judgement! Do I want to be human or humane, do I want to be restricted or emancipated, do I want to serve or be served, do I want to live or survive, do I want bliss or pleasure!?
Fortunately, we are now living in a world where we enjoy the freedom to explore our inner self and experiment with the external world but still people are experiencing a lack of peace and contentment that emanates from being free from all sorts of forces.
This is happening because people are either misguided or are not guided sufficiently enough to understand the fact that a sense of inner peace explodes itself not from gathering material things around throughout their life time but from renouncing all immaterial things away from disassociating themselves from the things which do not let them be a human in true sense.
Anything that inflicts our physical, mental, emotional, social and intellectual well-being is material enough to be renounced. Whereas anything that activates in us a sense of peace and contentment and paves way to eternal and inexplicable bliss is worthy enough to be made a part of our life because it is this which can bestow upon us true independence.