Complete Inner Freedom
“Let’s begin by trying to see how we can free our desire nature and not be so complicated about what we want. People are very concerned about how much to give and how much to expect from life. Am I loved enough? Do others love me enough in return? Am I being paid what I’m really worth? How much money do I dare hope for? Although we spend endless hours hoping and scheming to achieve our desires, the whole enterprise falls very short of what Nature intended for us. Nature wants to give us everything. That means infinite fulfillment. All that your heart desires, and then more, for you are desiring from a heart that has much more room for expansion. Presently, you consciousness cannot absorb the concept of having everything. It immediately transforms such a preposterous statement into a reduced version, such as: don’t bother about everything, I’d be happy with a new Jaguar, or 3 million dollars, or a beautiful wife. As the mind shrinks to its level of acceptance, what is it doing? First of all, it is bouncing back to its own level of awareness. If you have five thousand dollars instead of 5 million, that reflects your general level of awareness. Secondly, when the mind rejects the possibility of having everything, it expresses its doubts. Why should I believe in you? the mind says. And it has no choice but to doubt. For doubts form the chief boundary that encloses us within our narrow consciousness. If the mind could expand beyond its doubt and self-limitation, it would see that having everything does not mean that every kind of material success comes your way, although that possibility should not be ruled out either. Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom. When you are completely free of inner boundaries, you do not need to have a huge number of things, you already own something far more precious: you own yourself. You see yourself as someone who accepts everything, therefore, you have everything. This is not just a play upon words. If the new BMW, the 3 million dollars, the beautiful wife are true desires in your heart, Nature will not deny them to you. Above all Nature wants you to have everything. But the all important point is that having everything happens in consciousness, not in the outside world. Someone who owns absolutely nothing can still have it all inside. When the desire nature is completely set free, the main thing that happens it that your status, the way you see yourself changes profoundly. Instead of seeing yourself in the world, you truly do see the world in you. You are the co-creator of the world, a position you share with the highest universal intelligence, that we refer to as God. Your individual role is to manifest the things you desire from life. As you attain them, your sense of being a creator steadily enlarges until you realize that everything is available to you. This is the state of total freedom. This is the state of total freedom. Telling yourself that you have complete free will, that all posibilities are open to you at every second, that no power is greater than yourself will not bring freedom. These are all true statements, but they are true at a level of consciousness that has to be attained in reality. Presently, if you have a certain limitation, it seems quite real. if you try to wish it away, it inevitably reappears, seen from the perspective of your higher self, all fears are unnatural. But there is no substitute for proving it to yourself. If you are poor and someone gives you money, you will not automatically be release from the mindset which is the conditioned consciousness that created your poverty. But if you earn the money yourself, in a fashion that increases your self-awareness, the belief that tied you to poverty will be weakened. One step has been taken in the unfolding path that leads to freedom.”
- Deepak Chopra, The Higher Self
