Acharya Prashant (AP): A questioner is saying that just because of limitations, because of certain bondages, there seems to be a certain order in the society. He is suspecting that if freedom comes, then that will lead to disorder, chaos and anarchy. The model that is there in his mind is, if we all become free, then we all do as we please and as a result, there is going to be conflict.
Let's try to understand this. We have this room here and it is full of air molecules. And what are the molecules doing all the time? They are colliding with each other. We know that the molecules are not very densely packed, still, they are all the time colliding with each other — random movement, general chaos. That is what we can call as the state of disorder. Let this room be full of human beings, very densely packed with human beings and they have been given diverse tasks — some have to paint that wall; some have to repair the ceiling; some have to mop the floor; some have to take care of the chairs and benches — which require them to move in all three dimensions, just as the molecules are moving. Right? Would the human beings be colliding with each other just as the molecules do?
Questioner (Q): No, Sir.
AP: Now the room is far more densely packed with human beings than it is packed with molecules. We know the packing ratio in case of fluid; it is not very high. We know that most of the space, let's say, there is a water bottle and it’s filled with two fluids: air and water. It appears full of water, at least half full of water but even there that space is not very densely packed with water molecules, still, they are colliding. They have a lot of free space available to them, still they are colliding all the time. But if they are human beings, then they will not colliding with each other. And why wouldn't they collide with each other? Because human beings are intelligent beings. So even though everybody is free to move as he pleases, still there would not be anarchy or chaos. Anarchy or chaos comes not from freedom, it comes to people from a lack of intelligence. Anarchy, chaos, disorder, randomness — all these do not come because of freedom, they come when the individuals, that are involved, are acting unintelligently.
