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A Discontent Sojourner: Now Free

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Are You Liberated Yet? With no intentions of questioning the "freedom" so often quoted and misquoted from News channels' endless debates to some University Scholars, I  wish to bring into foreground a far more important connotation of the word "freedom". When we talk of liberating the world and other sections of society, we just mean by giving them something that is fundamentally essential for their existence but never the "freedom" in essence. That's because we cannot give somebody something that we don't have yet! With all of us, the "so-called educated lot" the word 'freedom' conveys basically just our independence to make decisions, and act too. If elders or for that matter just other norms or controllers of society are not able to curtail our ways of doing things our way - it's freedom. Really? Let's rethink.... How we think or act is again based on our own limited experiences and knowledge gained ...

Listen!!

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LISTEN!! It is often said that where animals "know," humans "know that they know ". Knowing that we know is the core capacity of human beings. We homo sapiens are more than sapient or wise , as we have the distinct capacity to know that we "know." This capacity for self observation is explosively powerful capacity that makes a man responsible for his actions. This can be termed as personal consciousness at times, but it goes beyond the physical organism, and is to be discovered in extended field of culture, society, nation or even beyond that...... There is a collective mind, also termed as "nous," where all our previous experiences of this and past lives are stored. This "collective Mind" is a kind of repository to which we all refer to when we act or take decisions. Hence, we all have the same source or in simple term, same dictionary to consult to! So, Unity and not Separatio n is our underlying reality ! It is our awakenin...