you controlling them. Some contend that accepting this slavery is itself happiness. But how can a slave be free? Freedom involves independence. That 'any dependence, however glorified it sounds, is bondage' is the true teaching of Vedanta. Freedom or liberation or mokSha cannot be gaining something, or going somewhere since anything that one gains, one can also loose and any thing that has beginning has an end. The state of limitless alone is freedom from all limitations; it should be space-wise limitation (non-finite), time-wise limitation (eternal) and object-wise limitation (unqualifiable or undefinable). Let us examine how Vedanta approaches this problem. After examining all human pursuits throughout their lives, all over the world, at all times, it concluded that they all originated from three fundamentally erroneous conclusions. A human being is not only a conscious entity but a self-conscious entity. He is not only conscious of the world, consisting of things and beings around him, but also conscious of himself too. Because he is self-conscious, he examines himself and comes to a conclusion about himself or makes judgments about himself. He makes three fundamental conclusions about himself: 1. He is mortal or his life span is limited, 2. He is unhappy and 3. He is ignorant. He is not comfortable with these conclusions since he has an inherent longing to be an eternal, happy and knowledgeable being. All his pursuits in life are essentially trying to establish himself as eternal, happy and knowledgeable. Fear of death is fundamental for all human