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THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS
journalists to present the fact which can give a very undesired impression. If a news paper were to report that ‘that groups of young protestors were defecating in the corner of a public building in which they were protesting’, it can induce highly charged emotional reactions of righteous indignation from the herd that feels certain of the malevolence of the youths. But the truth might be just that the young people were defecating in the corner of the building because that was the location of the toilet. That is the way the truth is distorted often by the learned!
We should be aware of the stark reality that in our mind we maintain some egoistic notions held close to the bosom about objects, ideas and events: and whatever experience we may have there always is the possibility that nothing will be allowed to ever expose the fraud constructed and existing only in our mind. This obscures the obviousness of true freedom. There are a lot of things and events which are unknown to us but we should realize that the unknown does not limit our freedom because the freedom we are seeking is not relative to our knowledge. This freedom is really free of all
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