Besides life, what is the most valuable treasure we can acquire, most of the time free of charge? If you are thinking about illusory things like money, or physically measurable things like land, your answer is wrong. We cannot fabricate or measure the exact value of money, or use the land we have at hand properly, if we possess no knowledge. With no knowledge we become puppets in the hands of those who possess it and, unfortunately, are experiencing a period of suffering. Knowledge represents freedom and power to a conscious mind, at the same time that represents slavery and power to an unconscious counterpart. A person with both consciousness and knowledge at hand is a person that is a slave to no one, including not being a slave to suffering itself. Do you imagine yourself being a slave, obeying another instead of following right, reasonable, meaningful, and inspiring explanations and demonstrations of knowledge as a free person? I have never imagined being a slave to no ...