Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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tempt us, we should ask them this question: "I may gratify your desires, but how do I benefit thereby?" This simple question may prevent us from taking the wrong. path. Before we put our thoughts into practice, we must learn to analyse them to remove all that is impure and keep only the pure. Only then. can we be peaceful and happy. But if we do not carefully analyse our thoughts and act upon them rashly, we shall find ourselves in great difficulties and sufferings as a result of our rashness. Behind the bars of evil desires, our soul is a prisoner. They impair the godliness of the soul. They do not feed the soul; they poison it. The soul behind the prison bars of desires has no choice. It has to accept the food it gets through the senses. Since this is not the natural food for the soul, it is obvious the soul cannot thrive on it. It becomes unhealthy, diseased for the lack of right food. What then. is the right food for the soul: It is friendliness, forgiveness, love, compassion, temperance. But the soul cannot get this food, unless it is set free from behind the bars of desires.
We should remember that life does not come to an end after death. Why then is man born? Why has he come into this world: Man is here on earth to develop the spark of love and godliness within him. He gets a chance to fan this divine spark into an eternal flame by his contact with humanity. What his surroundings are, is immaterial. A man determined to develop the godliness within him can do it anywhere in a city teeming with millions or in the