Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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Be careful, do pot,become a slave to your habits and desires; make them your slaves. When you get such a control, your mind has become healthy and strong and can stand on its own.
A child requires a push-cart for learning to walk; but as soon as it grows up and learns to walk on its own, it does not require the push-cart.
The same thing is true of the mind. The mind, when it becomes healthy and strong, can control itself and needs no longer the treatment of a mental doctor.
Bhagwan Mahavira taught the saints from his book of religion, Sooyagdaang, “Remember, do not ever become slaves to your habits or desires. The world will offer you comforts and means to acquire them, but you are on your own path of sacrifice. Desires will come your way; if you stop to gratify these desires, you are lost there will be no slave worse than you; because the others are slaves of their own selves, but you will have to depend on others. They can afford comforts of their own, but you will have to beg comforts from them and keep them pleased, with abject servility. You will reach this stage if you become slaves to your desires."
Once you become slaves to your desires, you have become the slaves of the world. So Bhagwan Mahavira told the saints, “Even if you are offered things, you
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