BACKGROUND OF 'HUMAN SLAVERY'

"If a man has a few kind words said to him, he begins to smile...
when he hears a few harsh words,he begins to weep..............
he is a slave to ..bread, to breath of air; a slave to dress...
he a slave to patriotism, to a country.....
he is a slave to name , and to fame.
He is thus in the midst of slavery
and the real man has become burried within...
When one realises all this slavery, then comes the desire to be free."
-from "steps to Realisation"-( A class-Lecture, delivered in America); Complete Works of Swami vivekananda; Vol-1, 19th reprint; p-411)