00:00You can very coolly have dogs as pets and if you feed them well and if you treat them well
00:05they'll
00:06never go away. Even if you push them out of your house you'll find them returning and you take
00:10them out for a walk and there's a collar around their neck. But no human being can ever be satisfied
00:15with such an arrangement provided he deserves to be called human. No human being will ever say that
00:21if I get fed properly and if I'm given enough money and if I'm given a cozy place to live
00:26in
00:27and a nice bed to sleep in I'm ready to live like a dog in your house. No human being
00:32will say that
00:33because human beings are constituted to value freedom more than anything else. The dog will
00:39happily survive in its bondages. Man cannot happily survive. We know of people who would rather die
00:45than be enslaved. That's the defining and exclusive characteristic of a truly alive human being.
00:54freedom. Freedom from everything. Freedom from your external masters and more importantly
01:00freedom from your inner conditioning. I hope we all were like that.
