One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.
If we sincerely want to become a liberated person, then we have to be willing to be independent in a world where so few truly think for themselves.
