Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Rakshabandhan is the bondage that saves you. You are saved by your bondage to something Higher. Bondage is essential in life. But bondage to whom? Your bondage to the Knowledge, to the Master, to the Truth, to the Self – all save you. Just like a rope can be tied to protect you or to strangle you, the small mind immersed in mundane things can strangle you. But The Big Mind, the Knowledge, saves you, frees you.