Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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he is freed from his confinement he may turn a new leaf. This is possible--but only if the man co-operates with those who wish to cure him of his evil propensities. Here, too, no outside force can cure him; he must heal himself..
Let me give you some instances. There are at times men who are good and kind and yet somehow they find themselves behind prison bars. They blame it on their luck —their destiny. But is it luck, is it destiny that has put them here? A man may be in most respects a good man, a law-abiding man; but he may have one weakness -say, greed. He wants more and more of money, more and more of the things that please his senses. He may not have the means to do it. Instead of training his senses to do without the things they crave for, he indulges in them. When he has not enough money to do so, he casts about for dishonest plans to acquire what does not rightly belong to him. He becomes unscrupulous and resorts to foul means. He may succeed for some time and this encourages him in his dishonest practices. But one day he is found out, tried and sentenced to a long ternt of imprisonment. It was not luck, not destiny; it.was his unrestrained greed that had put him behind prison bars..
Or there may be a man good in most respects, but with an ungovernable temper. If he is crossed in anything, he bursts into fits of rage and does cruel things that he would be ashamed of, later. He beats
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