Whose World Do You Live In ??

People often ask me a rhetoric question, “You live in your own fancy world, don’t you?”

To which I have standardized my reply, “Yes I do. Why whose world do you live in?”

It’s saddening to see people live in a world they don’t believe to be their own. Maybe that’s the root cause to every irresponsible step we take in life (it’s not my world anyways!!); that’s why people don’t own their problems and prefer to flee from it convincing their soul that the problem is bigger than them, but secretly, unknown to themselves, they nurture it within. A world lost on to them - a life, until now, not very well spent.

It saddens me more that in what seems to be a stark contrast, we created a hue and cry to be “free”, to live in a world that belongs to “us” – a world that belongs to “me”. But it seems like we won the fight but we are yet to win the war. The concept of freedom is much trickier than we think it is. To most of us it means doing whatever you want to do in life. But were that definition true then there would be utter chaos all around us, which actually is the case today. I believe we don’t quite understand what our ancestors fought for and achieved. Our inheritance has probably made us blind to the value it holds within, to grasp the finer meaning, which made the fight worth a million lives.

To live in a world that belongs to you – to be free – exercising freedom

Shri Shri Paramhansa Yogananda defines freedom as – “Freedom is not about doing what you want to do; it’s about doing what you should do.”

There is so much wisdom all around us, only if we care to find it !!

Wants by definition are based on emotions. They are wishes & are driven by an inner urge of senses that have no understanding of right and wrong.

It is a “want’s” Dharma to be pose a question to you.

How many wants do we heed to in a day without giving it a moment’s thought? The cause behind most of our sufferings is because we callously heed to our ‘wants’.

Should by definition is based on practicality. They are conditions that demand fulfilment in order to bring about harmony with our surroundings & within ourselves.

It is “should’s” Dharma to provide an answer to you.

How many shoulds do we heed to in a day? How many of us are even aware of what we should be doing? And mind you ignorance of law is not an excuse, especially when it speaks to you every day, every minute & every second in the form of conscious.

Before you exercise your freedom, know what it means to be free and for that you need to start living in your own world. If you believe in God or not you must believe in logic, and if you do believe in logic then you must be modest enough to admit that you are not yet the most logical human being alive & have a lot to learn. So figure out your “should” and once you know what you should be doing, what you want becomes irrelevant.