Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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thing and then quietly sit and think over it, you will feel a sort of satisfaction, and you will say to yourself, “At last I had the strength to give it up!"
As a man goes on renouncing worldly things, one by one, he experiences a sort of joy, a rapture. When saints are offered worldly things, they will not even look at such things and will say, “Please remove them from our sight - They are bonds and we do not want to be bondsmen."
The one who offered these worldly things to the saints will naturally, ask, “Why? What is wrong? Where is the harm?".
Then the real saints will say, "The very spirit of renunciation will be defeated if we receive and make use of such things. Remove them from us!”
So the path of renunciation of desires is through giving up. The only thing that will free you from desires is renunciation, and making yourself immune to these desires.
Now the third question is asked, "Which is the gloomiest hell?"
Comes the answer, “One's self.”
The world says that hell is very bad. But where is this hell: The talk of hell is heard everywhere, so the
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