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A Free Bird

We all wish to fly like birds, but we slowly settle under the Earth's gravity, unable to shed our mass. The mass of attachments and identifications that form the centre of our lives. 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: the Sun shining in the sky; the planets and stars, making his presence felt from a great distance; the realised 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; we do not take the blindfold off 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 choice. 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 are secure, 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 realise that it just needs to throw away the blindfold and do nothing else. However, we have probably chosen the game of blindfolding, and till the time our unconscious and conscious mind want this game of blindfolding to continue, it will continue on its own.

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