Bondage and Freedom

Author(s): Chitrabhanu
Publisher: Divine Knowledge Society

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bondage? Leave the city and you are a free man.” But they refuse to be free of the cities; they merely complain, but will not take any steps towards becoming free.
Our lives have become riddles. Most people have no thought of contemplation of life. As long as we do not think deeply on life, we will never know the meaning of life. Education has advanced considerably and our knowledge has gained expansion, but not depth. There is a vast difference between expansion and depth. Expansion is on the surface, whereas depth goes right into the heart of the matter.
Because of this condition, we have come to such a stage that we do not think of a question deeply, seriously or calmly, and never try to solve that question as it should be solved.
Sometimes the least educated haye solved the most puzzling of questions with their simple faith in the law of Karma. In this connection I would like to tell you the story of an old man of seventy who is barely literate. His son who is a matriculate feels proud of his education and feels himself superior to his father. This man has a son who is a graduate and feels him'self still superior. In this way, each generation feels itself superior to the previous one, because of the higher education it has received. This overemphasis on academic education has led us to discount men of real wisdom, of sterling virtues; inen who have