Word: fetter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...self and that the fundamental property of self is its individuality. Not the annihilation of self but the separation of it from the tyranny of the sensual desires is the supreme goal of the philosophy of India. Selfish pleasures are in truth self-destructible. Ignorance is the only fetter which binds the self to these pleasures. Therefore, sinfulness is not contained in the original nature of man to be destroyed by God alone, but may be wiped out by the destruction of ignorance...