REAL INDEPENDENCE IN REALITY COMES BY OUR COMPLETE DEPENDENCE (independence day special) (BG 7.14)

                All the cities, towns, villages, and wherever possible, today is a big day for Indians, its our independence day. The much awaited day every year. It marks the end of a century old suffering, humiliation, exploitation, by a foreign invader. This is a day of renovation, a day of reestablishment of our pride and honor. The day when the prejudice ended and justice started. The day which has invoked a true sense of individuality, and a real sense of existence, among all of us. The three colored flag flying gracefully, elegantly, with poise marks an emblem of our independence.

                Or our apparent independence. No, I am not mistyping words. Actually our independence is apparent. Although we have got independence from our external enemies, but the real enemy lies within us. And they are lust, greed, anger, envy, pride, and illusion.. until or unless, we are free from these enemies, in a true sense we are never independent.                           

              The problems will prevail, or it may proliferate, which we can see growing. In this context,  an anecdote is worth mentioning, long ago Alexander, the great , when he was on his world wide desecrating campaign, he came across a sadhu in india. He wanted to meet the sadhu, so he called the sadhu to come out of his cottage. But the sadhu denied. So, Alexander became so angry, and he angrily enquired about this weird behavior of the sadhu. And the sadhus reply was even more bewildering, he told ‘you are slave of my slave’. Now, Alexander who was the emperor of the whole world, couldn’t bear it, he was about to kill the sadhu, but wanted to know, why he said like that, the sadhu replied,’I have made anger my slave, and you are slave to your anger’. Alexander could understand now, the great message that he got.

 The story may seem very fascinating , but that is the condition of all of us. We are slaves to our own senses and mind. In other words we are dependent, and miserably so. So, to relish real independence , we got to be free of the six dangerous enimies, within. Otherwise we can celebrate the day year after year, but only to see, corruption, injustice, prejudice, exploitation, abuse, slavery, escalating in a geometric progression, God forbids it does nt happen.. But unless we are serious about extruding these enemies, these problems will inevitably crop on our society. So, Krishna, pointing it out in

BHAGAVAD GITA 7.14, 
‘THIS DIVINE ENERGY OF MINE, CONSISTING OF THE THREE MODES OF MATERIAL NATURE,
IS DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME. BUT THOSE WHO HAVE SURRENDERED UNTO ME CAN EASILY CROSS BEYOND IT.”
So, he is giving the solution also. We, the people, are always under the modes of material nature, and the product of material nature are the the six enemies, which we are always subordinate to. But Krishna here is assuring that, it is very easy to overcome, by simply surrendering to him. In other words by declaring our complete dependence on the supreme absolute, and thereby freeing ourselves from the illusory forces of mind and senses. We can become really independent in a true sense. And the method that is prescribed here in, by chanting the names of God, 
With chanting the mantra we can declare our dependence on God.. and therby become supremely independent. And the mantra in which krsna has invested all his energy, is all purifying, immediately, it cleanses our heart from the enemies..

Lets cultivate the message of bhagavad gita, lets chant krsnas name, lets become free from the bound state, that we are in, life after life,.. this is the essence of celebrating independence day.. thank you…