Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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temporal power, but a guru is greater because he wields spiritual power. This was recognised in the Age of Bhagwan Mahavira.
Now we are drawing to the end of our discourse. I hope you have understood and enjoyed what I have been telling you. I do not wish to give a lecture on a high philosophical topic. All that I want you to realise is that the mind can rule the body and the soul can be free even in a dungeon-if-if you conquer your desires and passions. I would like you to remember this when you are freed from the jail. Perhaps you have been looking forward to that day with various emotions. It is natural that you should long to regain your liberty, to reunite with your family and friends, to turn over a new leaf. But some of you may be filled with unworthy emotions-feelings of hatred and revenge; to get out and pay back those who have been instrumental in sending you here. Do you remember what I told you earlier? It was your own unrestrained emotions, your undisciplined senses that have brought you here. Do not try to shift the blame on others. Because you were a danger to society, you were sent here, to cure yourself. There are no old scores to settle. If Koshalraj could forgive one who had done him so much harm, what right have you to harbour ill feelings towards those who had to take recourse to law to secure their safety? Or, may be, some of you feel that you are the victiís of evildoers; that, but for them, you would not be here. I tell you, leave them to their fate. They will not escape
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