Privacy – Is it every human birth right?

Privacy is a requirement of your own space with the need to be with oneself. It is an individual freedom and choice to exercise discretion. It is way of being in solitude, seclusion, isolation, confidentiality and secrecy.

I would like to share my perception on the need for privacy. Every individual including me needs that little space of privacy which we all cherish. When it comes to individual what is this privacy and why we human feel the need for that little privacy?

Privacy is looked upon very seriously in the western countries. People value their individual privacy and they respect others privacy too. There are privacy laws created and supported in the constitution of these western countries to protect each individual against invasion of privacy. There are loopholes in any system and media folks tend to deviate. The privacy is respected among the family members and each spouse and family member is allowed their right to have their privacy. The kids have their own room with their own space or privacy. You can very much notice how the western celebrities are so disturbed by the media and paparazzi and how they react so badly to invasion of privacy. In work culture one need to knock at the colleague or boss cabin before one walks in. One needs to maintain the distance between two people and just talk business and ask no personal questions or become friendly immediately like we do in India.
In India the ancient culture taught us to be in communion, oneness and due to the fabric of joint family structure the need of privacy was restricted. Everyone wants to know what the other person is doing and so on. Even today you see your neighbor has all the details of you except for the personal details which you did not share. Our culture is to be in communion and it has its own pros and cons. The scenario is changing and people have understood the need for individual privacy and so on.

Our Human nature is dual in nature. One nature is towards self preservation and the tendency is to bind ourselves physically and create boundaries and the other nature is towards self liberation and the tendency is to liberate and expand our boundaries towards unboundedness and oneness.

Our Human nature is such that we are natural seekers and have the capability to go beyond the physical and experience life in fullness. In actual we are so much caught and mauled in the trap of dualities of life. In physical realm we do not get enough private time to be with ourselves.
Due to lack of quality time being in moments of privacy we are caught up in to the madness of so many activities and have entangled ourselves in the process of life rather than involved in the process of life by enjoying every moment of life and being in a state of content, joyous and blissful.

My take on Privacy with individuals is, if they get enough time to look inwards, meditate and manage their own self they tend to be relaxed and learn to accept life as it comes and need for creating boundaries and seclusion decreases. We tend to open up and learn to be in communion. We are all humans and we all face more or less the same problems in life and we all have the same goal of becoming happy and joyous.

As Human being we have the same form of energies but every human is unique in nature. Due to unique intensity in each one of us we operate at different levels of ego states. The truth is we are all one and have one non-being state of ego. If we all reach the peak of human consciousness or state of no mind or non-being, non-dual state we experience everything as one.

Life exists in only in dualities of nature and as a result we humans exhibit different levels of ego state and every human being needs that little privacy and that little space to be with own self, meditate, conserve and recharge and carry on life joyfully and blissfully.