Freedom;  A Phenomenon of the Totality

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

The vicious cycle of life we face, where one thing leads to another till the cycle is completed .It makes life monotonous the heart becomes heavy where all playfulness ,charms and magnetic pulls of life are destroyed. Unwillingly one moves in the cycle as nobody wants to repeat it .None wants to live a life of repeatation,a mechanical l  life. This is the cry inside but the cry is not total because wherever there is a total  cry  there is a revolt against  repetition.

The problem is that we all want to get rid of this routine as we find it difficult. The reason behind is that we have some vested interest in that mechanical life. It is sure that the life is not hundred percent mechanical. Had it been so we must have jumped of it without asking anybody. It needs no map, no guide ,no spiritual master but all one needs is the totality. So totality is the foundation of freedom. To see something a complete boredom and to ask how to come out of it is nothing but just a stupidity .As when somebody’s house is on fire and asking others how to come out of it . It is simply to jump out of it and save one’s life. So the coming out of this fire needs no map. no question of manner as to what door one is to come out. All these manners and advises are good when the house is not in fire. But when on fire it needs no asking “how “as the simple solution is just to jump out of it.

As one look s his situation ,no body is holding nobody rather one has made certain investments that forbids one from coming out of that monotonous life that one does not like. It  appears as if it helps one to be miserable as one gets sympathy from others for his miserable life. This sympathy we understand as love but sympathy is not love not even the poorest substitute of love. It is but certain that the mind that seeks sympathy from others is sick. So it is that one Is go into the mind and search what it is that holds one to have a fixed style of life?

 This” What “can not be found remaining in the same vicious cycle. One is to come out of it and the miracle is that when one jumps out  of it .all the problems have disappeared. So being in the mind  is the problem and to get beyond the mind is the solution. The western psychology has tried to solve this problem inside the mind because it has not understood that mind itself is the problem.

The solution to the problem cannot be found by asking question to the mind as the answer that mind gives is intellectual but the problem is existential. A discourse  on water cannot quench the thirst of a thirsty man. Water is needed as the problem  is existential and the existential problem can only be solved  by the existential method .A  question less  space is wanted which is beyond mind where all questions disappear answers have no purpose. When the question is gone , the answer is gone. There comes a freedom that surpasses all understanding. The question answer partition of mind  is transcended and a total question less state appears where lies the crux of freedom.

Lecturer in English

Shreedhar Swamy College of Education &Technology,Sadangi,Dhenkanal,Odisha INDIA