J. Krishnamurthy believed that the concepts of freedom and discipline are contradictory to one another. Discipline tends to bind an individual within certain restraints of tradition and morality. When bound by such restraints, true freedom can never be achieved. Discipline is imposed upon individuals by an external force. As such, the individual is not allowed to question the traditions. Without questioning, experimenting and free-thinking, there cannot be intellectual development and sensitivity and thus, true freedom can never be achieved. We become robotic, unable to empathize or be sensitive to the struggles of other individuals. Without questioning, we simply give in to the traditions mindlessly and there is no intellectual growth in following something blindly. And without any intellectual growth, there can never be freedom. Thus, the concepts of freedom and discipline contradict each other.