Question: How we get the real definition of freedom?
Speaker: We have to first start with understanding what is slavery? Freedom is not something that comes from outside. Freedom is our very basic nature. What comes from outside, is slavery. So, slavery when understood and gotten rid of, what remains is your free nature.
Do not try to go too much into what they are in the ‘positive’ sense, words like freedom, love, joy, awareness, do not try to go into them in a ‘positive’ way. Do not seek their ‘positive’ definitions instead seek their negative definitions – ‘what they are not’. Just try to understand what are the enemies of freedom are.
Try to understand – what covers up freedom. Try to understand – what is not freedom and get rid of that. And then what remains is freedom. Are you getting it?
You see, you can only bring that from outside, which you are not. Can I bring ‘myself’ from outside? I can only bring an external entity from outside, right? I cannot bring my own real nature from somewhere else. And freedom is ‘my own real nature’.
And that is why governments all around the world, when they want to punish, they take away your freedom. That is what jails are for. They realize that the biggest punishment is – to take away his freedom because your very nature is freedom, and you suffer every moment when your freedom is taken away. Do you see this?
