Bonded Freedom

It was the time when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru where traveling for some political work. India was an Independent country by then. Suddenly one person from crowd stopped him and questioned, “What we have got after freedom? What is the difference? Even today situation is as bad as it was before independence. What have u given us?” Pandit Ji stayed calm and then replied that this is the difference. Now you can talk to Prime Minister of your country in this manner. If you had tried this before probably some Britisher would had shot you or put you in jail. After listening this incident a thought came in my mind that probably this is the difference between freedom of Nation and soul. When a person gets independent by Nation he can speak to head of that Nation anytime and when person becomes independent by soul he can speak to head of this soul i.e. super soul at anytime.
True Master gives divine knowledge and frees non matter from bondages of matter. i.e. soul from the bondages of body. A soul is free to communicate with super soul at any time at any place.
But every freedom comes with a cost. Every game has its rules and regulations. When George Bush was president a reporter had thrown a shoe at him in a press conference. Few people even tried the same in India. Then a time had come when throwing shoes at Ministers had become a fashion. Although many of them were off target but all the offenders were sent behind the bars. Everyone is free to express themselves but the way later one’s expressed was not under the rules and regulations of the state. Babaji once narrated one experience of his school times. Babaji said
that, “ One day our P.T sir took us to school ground and said that children’s now you have freedom to play in this ground. A thought a came in my mind that although the ground is fenced from all sides; sir is saying that we are free to play here. What sort of freedom is this? Then I realized that if these bindings of fence are not there it may happen that I may get lost. So to enjoy freedom along with its bindings is for my benefit.” Few years back Babaji said that, “Ae mere khuda main utna hi azaad rahu jitna ki tere qaid main rahu.” When a train travels on railway track, the tracks are binding to the train but it is because of these bindings that train reaches the desired destination. It is nice to live a free, independent life but every sort of freedom is coupled with some bindings. One who enjoys freedom under these bindings is the one who excels in life.

On Mukti Parv Diwas I was blessed with the seva to receive the saint who was going to preside the congregation in our sector. As I stay on 11th floor we made our way towards the lift. I pressed one button and when we came out of the lift we saw that we had landed on some other floor. It was not my house. I just kept quiet and said that by mistake I pressed no.7. Then again we got in the lift and came on 11th floor. Saint asked me now have we reached. Embarrassingly I replied yes. A point to think upon here is that I knew my house, I was in lift but still I didn’t made it just because I pressed the wrong button. Babaji has blessed me with this ticket of divine knowledge, I know my house but still if I press the undesired buttons I may land up on some other place where I’m not supposed to be. Knowingly or unknowingly one presses the buttons of ego, hatred, selfishness, greed, competition which deviates one from the actual destination.
It is the case of same person who is having legitimate ticket, who has boarded the train on time but misbehaves with the passengers, makes life hell for those who accompany him in the journey. Then ticket master is forced to make the person alight off the train.
Divine knowledge is a ticket to salvation but one can achieve it only if one imbibes the teachings of True Master in one’s life. Babaji once said that, “Separate yourselves from all those things which separates you from others”. It is the process of removing impurities from the pure rather than putting purity into impure. Let all the bad qualities evaporate from us every passing breath because finally only pure will be allowed to enter the pure.
Even holy Bible says that, “Blessed are those pure in heart; for they shall see God.”
Let us live life in such a way that fellow passengers in the journey of life may yearn to have company like us. This formless almighty has no bindings but still lets us bind ourselves under the teachings of True Master and live a life full of bliss and happiness.