Responsibility and freedom go together. If you don't want
to take responsibility, you can't have freedom either. The two come together or
they go together: If you shun responsibility, you have to accept slavery in
some way or other.
Now, you had dreamed about freedom without every thinking
that great responsibility will follow. Freedom you have, but you have not
fulfilled the responsibility. Hence, sadness lingers around you. You are
absolutely capable of removing this sadness. If you were capable of destroying
your slavery, your chains, you are certainly capable of being creative.
Freedom means you will have to be responsible for every
act, for every breath; whatever you do or don't do, you will be responsible.
People are really in deep fear of freedom, although they talk about freedom.
But my own experience is: Very few people really want freedom; because they are
subconsciously aware that freedoms will b ring many problems that they are not
ready to face. it is better to remain in cozy imprisonment. It is warmer, and
what will you do with freedom? Unless you are ready to be a seeker, a searcher,
a creator...... Very few people want to go on a pilgrimage or to go into deeper
silences of the heart, or to take the responsibility of love. The implications
are great.
You will have to dispel that darkness; otherwise sooner
or later you will enter into a prison. You cannot go on burdening yourself with
sadness. Before the burden becomes too much and forces you back into slavery,
into imprisonment, change the whole situation by being a creative person. Just
find out what is your joy in life, what you would like to create, what you
would like to be, what you want to be your definition.
Freedom is simply an opportunity to find a definition for
yourself, a true, authentic individuality, and a joy in making the world around
you a little better, a little more beautiful - a few more roses, a little more
greenery and a few more oases.
Madam Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society,
used to carry two bags in her hands, always. Either going for a morning walk or
travelling in a train -those two bags were always in her hands. And she was
throwing something out of those bags - from the window while sitting in the
train - onto the side of the train.
People would ask, "Why do you do this?" She
would say, "this has been my whole life's habit. these are seasonal flower
seeds. I may not come back on this route again, but that does not matter: When
the season comes and the flowers will blossom, thousands of people who pass
every day in this line of railway trains will see those flowers, those colors.
They will not know me. That does not matter.:
"One thing is certain: I am making a few people
happy somewhere. That much I know. It does not matter whether they know it or
not. What matters is that I have been doing something which will make somebody
happy. Some children may come and pluck a few flowers and go home. Some lovers
may come and make garlands for each other. And without their knowing, I will be
part of their love. And I will be part of the joy of children. And I will be a
part of those who will be simply passing by the path, seeing the beautiful
flowers."
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