FREEDOM

FREEDOM

To be free is the goal of all life, from the atom to the cosmos. Life is this grand impulse towards liberation. But we are hopelessly bound to man and Nature and to God of our own imagination. Life's singular drive, though  remains this pursuit of freedom. All conflict, all resolution, all war and all peace are so many attempts to seek this freedom and so many failures to do so. A few succeed, have succeeded, and we venerate them as gods. But the quest to free oneself never stops. With every pulsation of life it goes on, with every breath is chanted the mantra, 'Freedom'. No wonder Swamiji said, "Freedom, freedom---this is the song of the Soul."

Written by Sugata Bose