What is to be free ? When does intelligence come to you ?

Question

To be free is to be intelligent, but intelligence does not come into being by just wishing to be free; it comes into being only when you begin to understand your whole environment, the social, religious, parental and traditional influences that are continually closing in on you.

(1) What is to be free ?
(2) When does intelligence come to you ?

Answer 1

(1) To be intelligent is to be free.

(2) Intelligence comes to a person when he begins to understand his whole environment: the social, religious, parental , and traditional influences that are continually closing in a person.