Knowing When You Are Free

Question:

How does one know when they have truly discovered themselves; the person they were created to become, when our beliefs become our own, not what others have influenced us to think?   What is the path to this elusive freedom of thought?

Answer:

The path to freedom is self-realization.  Knowing your essential nature means you become free from the binding influence of identification with the objects of perception.  You now know you are not your perceptions, your body, your thoughts or your feelings. You are unlimited, non-local pure awareness.  When consciousness fully knows itself, it is self-evident—you will know it when it happens.

Love,

Deepak

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About Deepak Chopra

Time Magazine heralded Deepak Chopra as one of the 100 heroes and icons of the century, and credited him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." Entertainment Weekly described Deepak Chopra as "Hollywood's man of the moment, one of publishing's best-selling and most prolific self-help authors." He is the author of more than 50 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-Rom titles. He has been published on every continent and in dozens of languages. Fifteen of his books have landed on the New York Times Best-seller list. Toastmaster International recognized him as one of the top five outstanding speakers in the world. Through his over two decades of work since leaving his medical practice, Deepak continues to revolutionize common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust and provides the basis for his recognition as one of India's historically greatest ambassadors to the west. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Divinity School, Kellogg School of Management, Stanford Business School and Wharton.His latest book is "Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul."

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5 Responses to Knowing When You Are Free

  1. Samantha Barton June 16, 2010 at 9:22 am #

    Namasta Deepak Chopra,

    How does Primordial Sound Meditation help us along this path?

    Namaste,

    Samantha Barton

  2. heartphone June 16, 2010 at 9:24 am #

    Just listen to the beautiful sound of everything around :)

  3. heartphone June 16, 2010 at 9:25 am #

    And become aware of the silence in it!

  4. lusy N June 17, 2010 at 1:13 am #

    And i thing it happens when we do nothing, any effort can take us far away….

  5. starabovethei August 15, 2010 at 4:17 pm #

    I think that we don't ever finish discovering ourselves or becoming the person we were created to be. Those things are never in the past tense. I think we are always discovering, always becoming. We're constantly changing, growing, aging, being created. When we think we have accomplished these things, and they are done, checked off the list, that is when we limit ourselves. Peace!