Passage 7

In English

What Is Freedom?

Freedom is of three types: , and . What is ? It is individual will. But one should accept victory and defeat, success and failure with equal-mindedness. Aspiring success and detesting failure does not constitute . Real freedom lies in considering happiness and sorrow equally. The same truth is propounded in the Bhagavad-gita: (one should remain equal-minded in happiness and sorrow, gain and loss, victory and defeat). Suppose you have invited a friend to your house. Can you allow only his face, and ask his feet to get out? Humanness lies in equality of both. Welcome both good and bad, success and failure, fame and disrepute with equanimity. This is the right way of experiencing .