“imprisoned Liberty”
“IMPRISONED LIBERTY”
Dr. Gyanendra Pratap Singh
Professor, Department of Geology
Govt. M.V.M. College, Bhopal, India
Email: gpsgeos@gmail.com /gyanendraps@yahoo.com
Liberty is a much talked about word and a debatable subject. This word is the best example of universal fraternity as it does not undertake and entertain the social hurdles like caste, creed, culture, gender, religion, apartheid, poverty and international obstacles like territorial niche, Durand line, Red cliff line, McMahon line, Pak strait and other so called frontiers. It does not discriminate people in terms of “the generation gap” too. Discussion and demand for liberty is omnipresent all along the globe. But, at the same time, it is the least understood and misinterpreted title as well. People argue emphatically for the liberty without considering its equally significant, inseparable, integral aspect, the imprisonment. Imprisonment does not mean putting some one into a prison; on the contrary, it signifies one’s identity, existence and horizons of responsibility. Liberty and imprisonment are nearly synonymous with being aware of one’s rights and neglecting one’s duties.
Although liberty and imprisonment are two but contradictory things yet we learn from nature that the things that have liberty of existence and recognition are imprisoned too. Stars are imprisoned in the galaxy, planets are imprisoned around the sun, the earth in its sky, moons in their planets’ orbits, wind is imprisoned in the atmosphere, waves are imprisoned in the ocean, the ocean itself is imprisoned in the shore, rivers in their banks, trees are imprisoned in their roots, nations are confined to their frontiers, a day is imprisoned in dawn and dusk, alphabets in words, words in sentences and sentences in punctuations.
Thus, the very existence seems to be imprisoned and the very prison marks its recognition. Things would not have existed if these hadn’t been imprisoned. Their liberty lies in their imprisonment. Had these denied their imprisonment, one would not see the existence of waves, the vastness of the ocean, the beauty of lunar eclipse, gallantry of hoisting national flag in the wind, the natural beats of music of flowing rivers and so on. Writing and reading of this article would not have been possible either, had the alphabets not been imprisoned into words and words into sentences. Meaning, too, would have lost, had the sentences not been punctuated properly.
Nature is our mother as every thing has been taught by, learnt and obtained from nature. The food one eats, the water one drinks, the oxygen one inhales, the clothes one bear, the shelter one needs to live in, are all nature’s precious gifts or blessings in disguise to all living beings and humans in particular. We, the humans, have deteriorated it most for our own comforts. It is beyond imagination that; how the things, that are for the beneficiary of all, be so badly misused for one’s own benefit, violating nature’s principle which states that one belongs to all while all does not belong to one. If one really and eternally loves one’s mother, then the mother’s i.e. nature’s most fundamental and mandatory principle ought to be borne in mind.
Likewise, all human beings who are engaged in their duties are imprisoned too. But this imprisonment provides them a disclosable identity, an honorable social status, liberty of unanimous existence, buttered bread and recognition. Therefore, be respectable, trustworthy, loyal and obliged to “imprisoned liberty”.
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