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A Free Bird

We all wish to fly like birds but slowly settle down to the gravity of the Earth unable to shed the mass. The mass of attachments and identifications, that form the center of our life. That is how freedom gives way to bondage and we settle for a sub-standard life.

Sometimes I wonder as if God has tied our eyes with a blindfold and left us to live in this world. We are chasing eternal bliss and when we get hold of that and open our eyes, we find that it was just a momentary pleasure. Our eyes are again tied with the blindfold and we start once again searching for eternal bliss. To make the game funnier (funny for Him and challenging for the players) He makes his presence felt through different symbols in the form of the Sun shining in the sky, the planets and the stars making his presence felt from a great distance, the realized souls and the acts of nature. We run to chase Him and fall flat on our faces. Sometimes we catch hold of Him and yet are unwilling to open our eyes for fear of having caught the wrong person, do not take the blindfold out of our eyes and move further. Sometimes, the other players misguide us and we fall into the trap.

I am really not sure why freedom becomes the last of the choices. Everything else takes over. The body, taste, money, family office, and everything else except freedom become the priority. Probably if we are ever able to remove the blindfold and get hold of the divine, we are never going to leave him for the sake of playing the game. But maybe, once we get secured, we would like to play the game of blindfolding again because we know that He is not going to leave. 

Probably, this pain of separation is necessary to understand the importance of His company. The separated mind, running after the deceptions, again and again, wants one or the other pursuit to make life meaningful. It fails to realize that it just needs to throw away the blindfold and do nothing else. However, probably we have chosen the game of blindfolding and till the time our unconscious and the conscious mind want this game of blindfolding to continue, it will continue its own way.

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