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On the occasion of the Indian Independence Day, Sadhguru looks at what
it would take to celebrate a day when the world becomes free from
borders and distinctions, and celebrates World Independence Day.
Sadhguru: India became free sixty-six years ago. However, it is of no use
if the country is liberated but man is not liberated. Its time man becomes
free. One always tends to understand freedom as, I will do whatever I
want to do. If you do whatever you feel like doing, you will get trapped in
your own limitations. Freedom means you are capable of joyfully doing
whatever is needed. If everyone does what they like or whatever they feel
like on a particular day, no one can stay together. Freedom is a result of
responsible action. If we act responsibly, the flower of freedom will bloom.
Freedom will not happen just because you send somebody away. True
freedom will happen when we become free even from the need to have a
certain identity of a nation. The technology and power that human beings

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Chandru Radhakrishnan a year ago
@subhash : Please note the very first line which says, "However, it is of no use
if the country is liberated but man is not liberated." He has mentioned about
individual liberation or enlightenment at the very first line itself. Please read
through the blog cautiously before making a comment upon it.

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subhash a year ago
Very ordinary and routine comment, such statements come from politicians not
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hold in their hands today are such that it is disastrous for people to think
in terms of nations. It is time we think as humanity. Otherwise there will
be no freedom. We will only get locked up in our own rigidities.
If we can celebrate World Independence Day in the next few decades,
when we become free from all boundaries, borders and distinctions, that
would be a tremendous independence day. That must happen a day
when we break away from the national shackles and just become one
humanity. This is not an empty dream or a utopian idea. People always
look at situations from the basis of existing realities, not at what is beating
within a human heart. The individual longing to go beyond limitations is
not being considered at all. If we stoke up what is beating in individuals
hearts, creating a situation where we can celebrate a World Independence
Day is not far away.
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Very ordinary and routine comment, such statements come from politicians not
Sadhgurus. Come on, any one would talk of a boundary-less world as freedom.
But is that true freedom? True freedom is in enlightenment. Spiritual masters
should never take their sight off it and encourage people towards enlightenment.
Only an enlightened person enjoys freedom.

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Goutham a year ago > subhash
When an area is marked on what to talk and what not to talk for a spiritual
guru, then he/she does not qualify to be a spiritual guru, because
essentially spirituality is about liberation(Freedom) which means no
boundaries. In the path to liberation, you essentially break all your
boundaries(limitations or identities) and when this happens, how can we
have different nations? If only every human aspires and works towards it,
automatically all boundaries(identities) dissolve. This is precisely what
Sadhguru is wanting and has mentioned it here.

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arun chakkravarthy a year ago > subhash
that is why he says it in beginning "However, it is of no use if the country
is liberated but man is not liberated" which he always stresses human
beings suffer from physical identification which is unfortunate and in this
social world it is really hard to come out of such identifications. one needs
to transcend the physical limitations to become enlightened as we are all
limited by our own body which is a natural thing.
it is the political mind that created the boundaries without realising the
whole world is one, its the same energy which is residing in every one.
that is the role of a guru who tries to give a clarity as inner and outer world
is same who has seen a bigger picture in their enlightment...

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Ceekaykay 13 days ago
How can we be ever free
With the tonnage of nukes around
Where suspicion reigns supreme
And most world leaders are of mind unsound
But a day will come as my Sadhguru dreams so high
And we like birds on the wings of love and freedom fly
And man talks to his brothers in language of the heart
And it is never too late for us to make a real start........
Pranams to Sadhguru


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anoop chandrasekhar 21 days ago
Wow !! world Independence Day...what a wonderful theme...but this Idea can be
put forward by just one country and that is India....because it has ralised
"vasudaiva kudumbakam" thousands of years ago!!! but if world has to listen to
what India says, it has to become NO:1 in the world, a leader of the world both
economically and politically....lets all of us work towards that goal...


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indirapriya 21 days ago
When each and every human being is liberated in this planet and feels true
freedom, automatically that day is the World Independence day!.Spiritual
Masters' goal is also the same. Pranams


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gaurav 21 days ago
only a true visionary can think like this...Sadghuru is the bestest best!


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Nadir 21 days ago
Beautiful thought and would love to see it happen where identity is not sort by
religion, caste, language , region or a nation. Where, humanity is not segmented
into herds/group. Where when one dies, it not his nationality/religion/region that
is stated to make us immune but his/her name is mentioned. Where bias and
prejudice do not hold us short, but an open mind that can listen, process and
provide a valid recourse as a sentient being that we should be. Where humanity
is at the core, where every action an individual takes defines him not the
language he speaks, the religion he comes from, the caste he belongs to or the
region or nation he hails from. That level of independence from bias and
prejudice creates the most binding responsibility, because what he does, defines
him or her. In this elevated state, he transcends from being a part of a group or
herd to being an individual , responsible aware and striving for exercising his
Independence in context of others, and they, as individuals, reciprocating the
same, forming a global human network - The Global Village - talked about, since
last two decades, but one day Sadhguru, hopefully together, as individuals, with
this paradox, we will attain the enlightened state. Till then, we all work towards it,
in our own ways.


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Krishna 21 days ago
@Subash doesn't have any work other than finding fault (which are not there) in
Sadhguru's articles. I am seeing him doing this from the last 2 years or so.
krishna


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asn 20 days ago > Krishna
U r absolutely correct.i m also seeing him doing this.


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Geetha Krishnamurthy a year ago
Reminded me of this...
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a
part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein


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M k a year ago
Looks like Subhash is a confused mind.


Ceekaykay a year ago
Yes Sadhguru , I also dream of a day when we can celebrate world
independence day and like migratory birds we can also cross borders without
passports and endless security checks. Where minds are without fear and heads
are held high. where freedom and responsibility complement each other. Where
blacks and whites and browns and yellow mingle freely to create a tapestry of
peace on earth.
For centuries men dreamed of going to the moon and they did when the time
came. Every dream will bear fruit when we believe and work towards it. You have
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came. Every dream will bear fruit when we believe and work towards it. You have
planted the seed of a noble thought and it is our duty to nurture its growth into a
plant and tree. And we will, yes we definitely will.............


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VijiS a year ago
Man(kind) is still to transcend the animalistic nature of marking boundaries.


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Ceekaykay a year ago > VijiS
Man(unkind) will never transcend his created boundaries unless he is
more open to other possibilities. Animals simply cross over and don't
erect fences.


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arun chakkravarthy a year ago
i would love to see that one day....


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arun chakkravarthy a year ago
i would love to see that one day. definitely possible....


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Babu a year ago
It is like NO PASSPORT and NO VISA, just take a transport and land where ever
you like !


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