50. Question: Can there be freedom without discipline?
Sri Chinmoy: No, there cannot be any freedom without discipline. Discipline is self-control; self-control is self-perfection. In self-perfection only does the real freedom abide. One thing we have to know in regard to discipline — discipline is not something austere or demanding. Discipline is something self-illumining and God-fulfilling.
Sri Chinmoy, A God-Lover's Earth-Heaven-Life, part 2, Agni Press, 1974