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from prejudice. He must have independence of thought. His thought must not be controlled by the prejudices, and results of false thinking. One who thinks because he was born in certain circumstance, that he is in duty bound to believe in certain dogmas, cannot concentrate. One must be preeminently free, must acquire independence of thought.
Secondly his heart must be completely independent. He must have full liberty. If his heart is controlled by lower emotions, be is then a slave to those emotions. Liberty means perfect freedom. Thirdly his senses must not be controlled by temporal or sensuous enjoyments. He will not cease to enjoy, but his enjoyments will take on a different nature,
There is a little illustration given in the Hindu scriptures. A person in nis enjoyments is like unto a fly. One person may be like a fly sitting on a liquid, which is not sweet. He is drowned in it and it is a death in a putrid, repulsive thing which he has settled upon. There is another fly which goes to a sweet liquid, instead of something which is putrid. He enjoys the sweetness of it, but in . short time he, too, is drowned. Another ily settles on a sweet, dry substance, like loaf-sugır. He enjoys it, and then flys away. If a person wishes
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