Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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life? A person whose life is full of happiness and success need not worry about little things. All his undertakings are bound to be successful and lead to happiness, since they are all a part of his successful
life.
You will get the opportunity to make your life happy and successful only so long as you are alive. "The time to be happy is now, the place to be happy is here, the way to be happy is to make other people happy."
Men alone have this wonderful opportunity to be happy, not even the gods have this opportunity for they are sunk in self-indulgence; nor the animals, far below, for they are ignorant of happiness. Only men have this opportunity and they must make the most of it. A worldly man can never be completely happy. Unless he shakes off his worldly enjoyments he cannot march towards happiness.
Only human beings have this opportunity to strive for a happy living. But if man becomes thoughtless and proud and forgets the importance of living, then there is no existence worse than his. Man has the means either to rise to a highly spiritual level or to fall lower than a brute.
'We have to endeavour not to fall back, but to attain higher and still higher levels.
He who is determined to go one step forward every day, is able to make his life happy. On the other hand, he who falls back one step, stands to lose