TO GIVE FREEDOM IS TO HAVE FREEDOM
by Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda (Swamiji)

If you want to be free, then give up your attachment.

If you have a cobra snake in your hand, you are not free and the cobra is also not free. If you drop him carefully, he will run away and you will also escape safely. Now you are free and he is also free. If you want to keep the cobra in your hand all the time then be sure you won’t be able to sit comfortably, nor will you be able to lie down to sleep. So renounce! As much as you can renounce, that would be the best. Then certain emotional problems which we have – anger, jealousy, hate, complexes, greediness - automatically will go away.