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secondary causes. When you get rid of the root cause, the rest of the causes will fall away automatically. When the root cause is destroyed, when ignorance leaves, the seeds for the next life will cease to be sown. As long as there is ignorance, there will be bondage. It is not a problem if one life is wasted but the problem is that it creates bondage for a hundred more lives.
Who likes bondage? This path of evolution( samsaran marg) is like a prison. From the beginning till the end, it is like a prison and when a person becomes aware,‘ I am free’, then he is freed from that prison. A person can become free when the illusion( mithya darshan) goes away and he attains enlightenment( samyak darshan). Only a Gnani Purush can make one have the awareness,‘ I am free’. The Gnani Purush never becomes one with his body.
All these instruments have bound you; electricity, elevators etc., all the instruments of comfort that were created have now imprisoned you. You have become dependent on them. Each person should have his circumstances and instrument such that they promote his independence. A human being should not become a slave to his comforts. These instruments which have made one become so dependant on them, will decrease and there is a need for that.
If people who desire freedom do not find the right path, then the very instruments that were meant to give them freedom will become binding. Instruments people seek out for freedom and moksha end up binding them because they are not the right instruments( sat sadhan). A right instrument is the one who is established in sat( the eternal), and such a person is the Gnani Purush. All other instruments( sadhans) will continue artadhyan and raudradhyan, and that is bondage.
Even the animals do not like this bondage. Today when I was coming here, I saw some men who were trying to put a bull into a truck. The bull obviously understood it was being taken