# 015 Freedom is the goal of Life

Freedom is the goal of life.

This freedom... is spiritual, a state of consciousness unhindered by any desire, unchained to any desire, ‘unimprisoned’ by any greed, by any lust for more. It is utterly empty, because if there is something, it will hinder freedom; hence it is utter emptiness.

This word ‘emptiness’ has been so very misunderstood by people, because the word has a connotation of negativity.... Emptiness is absolutely positive, more positive than your so-called fullness, because emptiness is full of freedom; everything else has been removed. It is spacious; all boundaries have been dropped. It is unbounded — and only in an unbounded space, freedom is possible. This emptiness is not ordinary emptiness; it is not only absence of something, it is a presence of something invisible. For example, let’s say you are about to empty your room: As you remove the furniture and paintings and the things inside, the room becomes empty on the one hand because there is no more furniture, no more paintings, no more things, nothing is left inside; but on the other hand, something invisible starts filling it. That invisible ‘thing’ that you now perceive is ‘roominess’, spaciousness; the room becomes bigger. As you remove the things, the room is becoming bigger and bigger. When everything is removed, even the walls, then the room is as big as the whole sky.

Freedom is the ultimate goal of true religion. Freedom is the highest, the summum bonum; there is nothing higher than that.

Osho