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here, the goal is happiness in a way.
You say “to be free." How can you be happy unless you are free ? If you are not free you are not in a condition to enjoy happiness. A slave cannot enjoy happiness because of the restrictions on him. In order to be happy, you have to be liberated. You want freedom, but if you have fear, how can you become free? See how all these desires are connected with each other. You say different words, but there is a common source underneath. In order to be happy, we have to be free, and when we are free from fear, then we may enjoy freedom.
How can you have freedom unless the society you live in is healthy? In a narrow, unhealthy society, people around you are negative. Their standards are low in all aspects-commercially, physically, financially, intellectually, and spiritually. You cannot remain aloof, so you have to do your part to change the society. In a healthy society you have freedom, you have fearlessness, you have happiness. And to build that society you need love.
If you don't have love, you can't work for somebody. What you do solely for money isn't real work. At your office, you wait for the clock to show "five,” and you hurry out. Here there is only a financial binding, no love. The mother does not toll the child she will not change his diaper past a certain hour of the day. No one pays her a salary, but the relationship between a mother and child is one of love. She would remain hungry to food her child. She would not care for herself; she
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