Excerpt from Gospel of Ramakrishna

"But, sir, if She (Divine Mother) likes, She can give freedom to all.
Why, then, has She kept us bound to the world?"

Sri Ramakrishna: "That is Her will. She wants to continue playing with
Her created beings. In a game of hide-and-seek the running about soon
stops if in the beginning all the players touch the 'granny'. If all
touch her, then how can the game go on? That displeases her. Her
pleasure is in continuing the game." P. 136 The Gospel of Sri
Ramakrishna