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2017
REJOICING Why do you rejoice to-day? Is it because we are celebrating the anniversary of the day we attained our Freedom?
Freedom from what? Have you attained freedom from the craving to indulge your senses? Are you free from greed? Or from ignoble thoughts? Or from passions that can sway you helplessly?
If you are still a slave to all these, wherefore rejoice? Break these bonds that still bind you, win this freedom, and then you may rejoice in the purity and fullness of your heart.
