To understand Freedom, understand slavery

To understand freedom, we have to first understand slavery.

Freedom is not something that comes from outside. Freedom is our basic nature. What comes from outside, is slavery. So, when slavery is understood and gotten rid of, what remains is your free nature.

Words like freedom, love, joy, awareness, do not try to go into them in a positive way. Do not seek their positive definitions. Seek their negative definitions — what they are not.

Just try to understand what are the enemies of freedom are. Try to understand — what covers up freedom. Try to understand — what is not freedom. And get rid of that. And then what remains is freedom. Are you getting it?

You can only bring that from outside, which you are not. Can I bring ‘myself’ from outside? I can only bring external entity from outside, right? I cannot bring my own real nature from somewhere else. And freedom is ‘my own real nature’. And that is why governments all around the world, when they want to punish, they take away your freedom. That is what prisons are for. They realize that the biggest punishment that can be given to someone is — to take away his freedom, because your very nature is freedom, and you suffer every moment when your freedom is taken away. Do you see this?