Things that the mind feels are not for itself conducive, it rejects, and things that are conducive, it accepts.


Again, when the worldly objects assembled around a mind in a pattern that is in line with its present idea of joy, the mind feels happy; and when the things get arranged in a pattern contrary to the mind's present ideas of happiness, the mind revolts against them and this is expressed as anger.


To live thus a slave to the mind and its death-dance is to live in 'bondage'. Slavish obedience of the individual to the endless demands of the body, mind and intellect for sense-gratifications, among the objects of the world outside, is the state-of-bondage.


A state-of-freedom cannot be attained unless the mind discovers the source of a greater bliss in itself, so that in its utter satisfaction, the mind gets no more tempted to gush out to embrace the sense objects.

 
- Swami Chinmayananda


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