to offer, because we have bound up the greatest
part of ourselves in the past. What then is the
path that leads eventually to Self-dedication ?
It is the daily constant untying, unbinding,
in fact, the freeing of ourselves. In practice,
what does that mean ? What binds us ? Conven-
tion, bigotry and prejudice. Convention means
bound by a custom for which there is no reason,
bigotry means that we impose our thoughts on
someone else, prejudice means that we are
bound by a judgment which is formed before-
hand; besides this, our past karma binds us,
family ties, national ties; all this mesh or web
has to be broken before self-dedication can be
complete. Sometimes bigotry and prejudice
are breakable by strong will, determination,
constant endeavour; but it is not easy, no
struggle to be free is easy.

Our past karma is more difficult to tackle
and the only way to meet that is to accept it and
learn from it and try our best to make no more
bad karma. If we meet it as the inevitable law
of action and reaction, it is a better attitude
than the idea of haphazard chance. The family
ties and what I have called national ties have
to be accepted, fulfilled, carried out and not
shirked. To shirk means that the obligations
are postponed to another life. If you are on the