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How independent are we?

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How free are you?

On the eve of 65th year of independence, just ask yourself, are you free? What is freedom? Is it hoisting the tricolor at the red-fort? Or is it calling yourself an Indian? Yes...that was freedom, 65 years back, for those who put their lives at stake to drive the oppressor out. As for you, you are still being ruled, only the getup of ruler has changed. The ruler is not the people, but power. The one who is in power, exercises it to promote his interests. And the one who succumbs to power, does so to safeguard his personal interest. Just think, if Ashfaqullah Khan, Bhagat Singh or Rani Lakshmibai chose the comforts of their house over the comfort of the nation, would they have been free? Freedom is being one with the creation. As soon as you become two, you are bound. Today, you are not just two or three, you range in billions. There are atleast five thousand different communities in the world and within those communities also, the interest of each member is different and at l

From the Vedas

"Vedas are not books and neither they can be contained in the mind....as the mind is  limitless...like the gyan in creation."-Yogi Ashwini “Idan na mam”, its not mine “Nishkam karma” – Bhagwad Gita "Ideals must become higher and grander. Desires must become more and more selfless and sublime." Atharva Veda “Happiness will not come from happiness; but only from pain. We know the value of standing in shade only after roaming in the hot day sun.” Atharva Veda “Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” Rig Veda “The sage knows Brahman, the support of all, the pure effulgent being in whom is contained the universe. They who worship the sage, and do so without thought of self, cross the boundary of birth and death” Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:1 “He who, brooding upon sense objects, comes to yearn for them, is born here and there, again and again, driven by his desire. But he who has realized the Self, and thus satisfied all hunger, attains to liberation even in this