To be Free!

It is actually difficult to say it in words. All that we keep searching for all the time is just to be free. Look around and you will know. We have tied our selves to so many things around us that some times one wonders whether we are free at all! Our job, our friends, our family, our dreams, our endeavors, our car, our money, our hobbies, our etc, our etc and our etc. Even Buddha who preached detachment died of his fondness for his meat. So was Alexander the Great, who died of his thirst for dominance of the orient. We all will, one day. But will we ever be free, in the real sense? In our life time, that is. To be free after you are dead actually has no meaning because you won’t know that you are free!

So, how do you become free when alive? MDQ, please! Am no great philosopher and therefore in any case can not give the answer. But I found the lyrics of a song from the movie, SHILOH, that I talked about in one of my prattling in this blog, some what close to an answer! Read on:   

I need to talk
I know it's late
There's something I've
Just got to say

We've been standing in the dark for so long
It's gonna break my heart to turn the light on

You are all I want
But all I want ain't what you need
If I can't be the one you want
Then all I want is to be free

Don't spare my heart
Please don't pretend
You know I'm right
This is the end
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/s/shiloh/all_i_want.html ]
It would hurt me less to just face the truth
That you don't really feel the way that I do

You are all I want
But all I want ain't what you need
If I can't be the one you want
Then all I want is to be free

Gotta get away
Gotta get away
Wanna stay
But I gotta get away

Not another day
Gotta make a change
Wanna stay
But I gotta get away, yeah yeah...

You are all I want
But all I want ain't what you need
If I can't be the one you want
Then all I want is to be free

Be free of your attachments. At least stop wanting from others. That way you will end up doing what you want and will be free from the anxiety of expecting something in return! That is what that mythological hero Krishna said:

“Karmanyevadisha ma  paleshu kadashana”