FREEDOM CAN BE WILLED, LOVE NOT. PLEASE COMMENT.
Anand Akam, freedom can be willed because it is your own decision to remain in a
prison. It is your own responsibility. You have willed your slavery, you have decided to
remain a slave, hence you are a slave. Change the decision, and the slavery disappears.
You have invested in your unfreedom. Any moment you see the point, you can drop it;
instantly it can be dropped. Nobody has forced unfreedom on you, it is your choice. You
can choose to be free, you can choose to be unfree; you are so free that you can choose
either. This is part of your inner freedom -- not to choose it is part of your freedom.
Hence it can be willed.
But love cannot be willed. Love is a by-product of freedom; it is the overflowing joy of
freedom, it is the fragrance of freedom. First the freedom has to be there, then love
follows. If you try to will love, you will create only something artificial, arbitrary. A
willed love will not be true love, it will be phony.
And that's what people are doing. Love cannot be willed, and they go on willing it. What
can be willed, freedom, they go on ignoring. They go on thinking that somebody else is
responsible for their slavery and their life of slavery. This is a very topsy-turvy
conception of your own life. You are upside-down.
Change the vision: will freedom, and love will come of its own accord. When love comes
on its own accord only then it is beautiful, because only then it is natural, spontaneous.
Willed love will be a kind of acting. You will be pretending -- what else can you do? You
will be moving through empty gestures -- what else is possible? You cannot be ordered to
love somebody, you cannot order yourself to love somebody. If it is not there, it is not
there; if it is there, it is there. It is something beyond your will. In fact it is just the
opposite of will: it is surrender.
When one is totally dissolved into freedom and when one is really free, the ego
disappears. The ego is your bondage, the ego is your prison. In total freedom there is no
ego found. Surrender happens, you start feeling one with existence -- and that oneness
brings love.
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