Monday, April 18, 2005

"Restricted" Freedom

Restricted Freedom ?? If it is restricted, then what freedom is that, one might ask.. But, freedom, when restricted to certain "primitive" rules and regulations makes life much more easier.. I couldn't get convinced by this completely till recently, though said by one of my friends many times. Again, these rules and regulations should be transcended to feel the real and ultimate freedom. Unless one confines to these boundaries of rules for sometime, that too mindfully, the real freedom can never be felt or achieved.
It's just like this.. When a starter tries to play a musical instrument 'just like that', letting the fingers to take their own way, with complete freedom, he/she will not be able to utilise the power in that freedom, the result being just less than noise. Once they practise with various kinds of ragas ( Each Raga can be taken as "primitive" restriction), get feel N gain mastery over them, the play will be 'truly' free.. Crossing limits of existing ragas may even lead to creation of new ones..Whatever they play from then on, will be a masterpiece as they transcend the limits.

4 Comments:

At 10:36 PM, Blogger Anand said...

Restricted freedom or ordered freedom?

it is not really a restriction. it is imposing some order, imposing some symmetry. isn't it?

 
At 1:40 PM, Blogger The Ignoramus said...

IMHO

Freedom is meaningless without restriction. Freedom lies in not erring. Freedom lies in accepting these limitations. Freedom lies in forgetting about becoming free.

Do I make any sense to you?

 
At 4:59 AM, Blogger Devi said...

It does make sense Ram, freedom lies in forgetting about becoming free.. but, once one knows that this is not THE freedom what he/she has, how to revert back that knowledge and forget that ? If one forgets that it dumps him in ignorance and falsehood ! as long as one misses it, how can one forget it ? not possible, right ! but finally when that state of freedom is achieved, automatically one forgets about it.
Freedom implies forgetting abt freedom but not implied by ..

 
At 10:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi, Im from Melbourne Australia. Please check out these related references on "restricted" freedom.

www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html

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