The Importance of Effective Communication in Management

Throw Yes And No

There are three kinds of freedom. One is ‘freedom from’; that is a negative freedom: freedom from the father, freedom from the mother, freedom from the church, freedom from the society. That is a negative kind of freedom – freedom from – good in the beginning, but that can’t be the goal. Once you are free from your parents, what are you going to do? Once you are free from your society then you will be at loss. You will lose all meaning and significance because your whole life had meaning in saying no. Now whom to say No to?

This is ‘freedom from’. This is not much of a freedom, but better than nothing. The second kind of freedom is ‘freedom for’; that is positive freedom. Your interest is not in denying something, rather you want to create something. For example, you want to be a poet, and just because you want to be a poet you have to say no to your parents. But your basic orientation is that you want to be a poet and your parents would like you to be a plumber. “Better be a plumber! That is far more paying, far more economical, far more respectable too. Poet?! People will think you are crazy! And how are you going to live? And how are you going to support your wife and your children? Poetry can’t pay!”

But if you are for poetry, ready to risk all, this is a higher freedom, better than the first. It is positive freedom – ‘freedom for’. Even if you have to live a life of poverty you will be happy, you will be cheerful. Even if you have to chop wood to remain a poet you will be utterly blissful, fulfilled, because you are doing what you wanted to do, you are doing your own thing. This is positive freedom.

And then there is a third freedom, the highest; in the East we have called it MOKSHA – the ultimate freedom, which goes beyond both the negative and the positive. First learn saying no, then learn saying yes, and then just forget both, just be. The third freedom is not freedom against something, not for something, but just freedom. One is simply free – no question of going against, no question of going for.  ‘Freedom from’ is political, hence all political revolutions fail – when they succeed. If they don’t succeed they can go on hoping, but the moment they succeed they fail, because then they don’t know what to do.

Inner Sound

You can catch ancient science only in utter silence, when you are with universal sound AUM. This is a mystery. Silence is not something you can practice. It will happen on its own.

From the AUM the whole universe is created. Now NASA has recorded the sound of the Sun, which is AUM.

When from the AUM everything is created and everything is unique so you cannot follow any scriptures or any Guru. As I have written in my Bhagavad Gita Verse 4.2, religion can never be taught, it can only be caught. You need to be sharp, meditative, and silent. Once you become silent you will be able to hear the AUM from within in the middle of the market.

Guru can only guide us to be silent and when we hear the AUM, they support us. Through their guidance we are introduced to our inner sound, AUM.

Krishna, when says that understand the transcendental mystery of this science, means that you hear your own sound, which will be your own light and guide you to respond in this present moment. Then in your action there will not be any imitation, but uniqueness, freshness and fragrance of the universe.

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