Independence is one thing. Liberation is another. The two aren’t the same. May Liberation be India’s fate. Happy Liberation on the Independence Day!
“To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.” – Swami Vivekananda
Great violence lies in the distance between Being and Becoming. What you are, you don’t accept. What you aren’t you want to be.
The structure of your being lays the foundation of your physical self.
Your flight starts from standing there. Firm.
In that standing is the power of ascendency.
Wobbling ones don’t remain standing for long.
The fetish for becoming what one is not lends to a wobbled existence. There is no glory in that.
When one is firm in one’s being. Whatever that may be. There is an immediate and necessary liberation.
No idea, no limitation binds one. There is nothing holding back.
Freedom from external powers is the prerequisite for the environment where existential liberation can thrive.
India is finally on the verge of leaving the vestiges of imperialist shackles aside.
They should not remain. Even a bit will bring all back.
Liberation does not happen in percentages.
Either it is or not.
(The article was published on Drishtikone.com on August 14, 2023 and has been reproduced here with permission.)
