We all look for Freedom. In order to be free, you dont have to be alone. Those who live alone, cannot live with anyone else. This is not healthy. Such a person will feel lonely all the time. When you want to be a free person, you can choose to be alone for sometime.
For example, say, you saw someone drowning in water. You felt helpless as you didnt know swimming and hence couldn’t help. You then made a resolve to learn swimming. Now you need to withdraw yourself, and learn swimming.
Once you become confident and strong, you have the freedom whether to go swimming or not. You can be alone, when required, to realise your strength or inner potential and face people rather than being alone all the time. That person is a free person who has the choice to either live alone or live with others.
Excerpts from Swamiji’s Satsang in Italy – Jan 2022