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transitoriness can bind us and little knowledge can do much more havoc. So, we are prisoners on our own accord and some times we like the prison, some times we hate the prison. Therefore, all bondages are due to ourselves and not due to God.
Now how to get rid of this kind of inflexible bondage, or securities? The only way for us as individuals is to get at God who gave us the capacity to defend ourselves, to find why we are, what we are. So our connection with God becomes very important. If we connect ourselves with God, then we will find the rationale of our securities and bondages, in which case, you are not attached to them and we can use them as freely as possible, without being bound by them. Freedom is a dynamic process of living in God, because God gives the sense of freedom. We construct everything out of Freedom. We barricade ourselves within our fortresses out of freedom and now we find that old barricades are not useful. Things are changing. The world is changing, our patterns of life are changing. So, we have got to throw them away and build again if necessary, new securities which permit our freedom rather than deny it. Now if we understand from this point of view we can know that God did not create this world just to bind us. God created the world to give us security and we made it our prison. Now I think, only if we can look about why and what is the secret force with which the God created the world for our freedom, then, we will find that we are free in this world and not bound.
No institution is perverse enough to bind us for ever, but it can be a liberating instrument. Now this is the dynamics of spiritual life. We have got to connect ourselves with the Ultimate. And Master says it is more simple. But we think that just as it was difficult for us to create barriers around us, the realisation of God must be as ingenious as these things. Now it is true we have built our Gods in our own image, and it is a very funny thing when we study in mythology how we have created Gods to our own tastes and to our lives. But God is really simple. Now the easiest thing we can do is to connect ourselves with God. Do not look to all these outer things that we have created. Now through them shall we realize God, not through our barricades. What we have to get is God's mind within us and it can be got. Religions have said, "the way to know God is torture". That is a terrible thing, as if He is our enemy. Our security is threatened by God.