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Western world it appears is slightly alienated from the spiritual world that most people in the east like Hindus take for granted. For an average person in the West, physical and material world is the only world and spirit is only an illusion. For those in the east, like Hindus, physical world is the illusion and spirit is the only truth there is.
Western social, political and economic systems play an important role in the shaping of western concept of freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom of speech, freedom from bondage, freedom to vote, are some of the main ideals upheld by western society and thus freedom has become merely a hollow term used to describe a state of liberation in the physical world. Capitalism has also influenced the development of this concept as freedom to choose what one likes, build what one desires and move as and when one wants is what this economic system promotes. Thus western concept of freedom is deeply grounded in purely physical...
Man's ability to accumulate wealth, to fight for his rights, to wear what he likes and to discard what he despises are considered signs of freedom.
Here we have the Western model of progress and individual success in a nutshell. Accumulation of consumer goods and a readiness to acquire more goods when such new opportunities are opened up by the product development departments of private enterprises..." {Hedebro 1982: 38}
However there is nothing spiritual about this concept and Hindu religion like most religions of the east seek Moksha from such worldly pursuits.
References
Frederic Spiegelberg. Living Religions of the World: Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1956
Hedebro, Goran. Communication and Social Change in Developing Nations. Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1982.
Peter Heehs. Indian Religions: The Spiritual Traditions of South Asia: An Anthology/edited. Delhi, Permanent Black, 2002
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