HOW TO BECOME
SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR WORK?
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WHAT IS DUTY?
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IT IS NECESSARY IN THE STUDY OF KARMA-YOGA TO KNOW WHAT DUTY IS. IF I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING I MUST FIRST KNOW THAT IT IS MY DUTY, AND THEN I CAN DO IT. THE IDEA OF DUTY AGAIN IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT NATIONS. THE MOHAMMEDAN SAYS WHAT IS WRITTEN IN HIS BOOK, THE KORAN, IS HIS DUTY, THE HINDU SAYS WHAT IS IN THE VEDAS IS HIS DUTY, AND THE CHRISTIAN SAYS WHAT IS IN THE BIBLE IS HIS DUTY. WE FIN THAT THERE ARE VARIED IDEAS OF DUTY, DIFFERING ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT STATES IN LIFE , DIFFERENT HISTORICAL PERIODS AND DIFFERENT NATIONS. THE TERM "DUTY" , LIKE EVERY OTHER UNIVERSAL ABSTRACT TERM, IS IMPOSSIBLE CLEARLY TO DEFINE, WE CAN ONLY GET AN IDEA OF IT BY KNOWING ITS PRACTICAL OPERATIONS AND RESUTLS. WHEN CERTAIN THINGS OCCUR BEFORE US, WE HAVE ALL A NATURAL OR TRAINED TO ACT IN A CERTAIN MANNER TOWARDS THEM, WHEN THIS IMPULSE COMES, THE MIND BEGINS TO THINK ABOUT THE SITUATION.
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SOMETIMES IT THINKS THAT IT IS GOOD TO ACT IN A PARTICULAR MANNER UNDER THE GIVEN CONDITIONS, AT OTHER TIMES IT THINKS THAT IT IS WRONG TO ACT IN THE SAME MANNER EVEN IN THE VERY SAME CIRCUMSTANCES. THE ORDINARY IDEA OF DUTY EVERYWHERE IS THAT EVERY GOOD MAN FOLLOWS THE DICTATES OF HIS CONSCIENCE. BUT WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES AN ACT A DUTY? IF A CHRISTIAN FINDS A PIECE OF BEEF BEFORE HIM AND DOES NOT EAT IT TO SAVE HIS OWN LIFE, OR WILL NOT GIVE IT TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ANOTHER MAN, HE IS SURE TO FEEL THAT HE HAS NOT DONE HIS DUTY. BUT IF A HINDU DARES TO EAT THAT PIECES OF BEEF OR TO GIVE IT TO ANOTHER HINDU, HE IS EQUALLY SURE TO FEEL THAT HE TOO HAS NOT DONE HIS DUTY, THE HINDU'S TRAINING AND EDUCATION MAKE HIM FEEL THAT WAY.
IN THE LAST CENTURY THERE WERE NOTORIOUS BANDS OF ROBBERS IN INDIA CALLED THUGS, THEY THOUGHT IT THEIR DUTY TO KILL ANY MAN THEY COULD AND TAKE AWAY HIS MONEY, THE LARGER THE NUMBER OF MEN THEY KILLED, THE BETTER THEY THOUGHT THERE WERE. ORDINARILY IF A MAN GOES OUT INTO THE STREET AND SHOOTS DOWN ANOTHER MAN, HE IS APT TO FEEL SORRY FOR IT, THINKING THAT HE HAS DONE WRONG.
BUT IF THE VERY SAME MAN, AS A SOLDIER IN HIS REGIMENT, KILLS NOT ONE BUT TWENTY, HE IS CERTAIN TO FEEL GLAD AND THINK THAT HE HAS HIS DUTY REMARKABLY WELL. THEREFORE WE SEE THAT IT IS NOT THE THING DONE THAT DEFINES A DUTY. TO GIVE AN ONJECTIVE DEFINITION OF DUTY IS THUS ENTIRELY IMPOSSIBLE. YET THERE IS DUTY FROM THE SUBJECTIVE SIDE.
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ANY ACTION THAT MAKES US TO GODWARD IS A GOOD ACTION, AND IS OUR DUTY, ANY ACTION THAT MAKES US GO DOWNWARD IS EVIL, AND ACTION THAT MAKES US GO DOWNWARD IS EVIL, AND IS NOT OUR DUTY. FROM THE SUBJECTIVE STANDPOINT WE MAY SEE THAT CERTAIN OTHER ACTS HAVE A TENDENCY TO DEGRADE AND TO BRUTALISE US. BUT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO MAKE OUT WITH CERTAINLY WHICH ACTS HAVE WHICH KIND OF TENDENCY IN RELATION TO ALL PERSONS, OF ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS. THERE IS, HOWEVER, ONLY ONE IDEA OF DUTY WHICH HAS BEEN UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED BY ALL MANKIND, OF ALL AGES AND SECTS AND COUNTRIES, AND THAT HAS BEEN SUMMED UP IN A SANSKRIT APHORISM THUS. "DO NOT INJUIRE ANY BEING, NOT INJURING ANY BEING IS VIRTUE, INJURING ANY BEING IS SIN".
THERE ISA SAGE IN INDIA, A GREAT YOGI, ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL MEN I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. HE IS A PECULIAR MAN, HE WILL NOT TEACH ANY ONE, IF YOU ASK HIM A QUESTION HE WILL NOT ANSWER. IT IS TOO MUCH FOR HIM TO TAKE UP THE POSITION OF A TEACHER, HE WILL NOT DO IT. IF YOU ASK A QUESTION, AND WAIT FOR SOME DAYS, IN THE COURSE OF CONVERSATION HE WILL BRING UP THE SUBJECT, AND WONDERFUL LIGHT WILL HE THROW ON IT. HE TOLD ME ONCE THE SECRET OF WORK", LET THE END AND THE MEANS BE JOINED INTO ONE".
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WHEN YOU ARE DOING ANY WORK, DO NOT THINK OF ANYTHING BEYOND. DO IT AS WORSHIP, AS THE HIGHEST WORSHIP, AND DEVOTE YOUR WHOLE LIFE TO IT FOR THE TIME BEING. THUS, IN THE STORY, THE VYADHA LIFE TO IT FOR THE TIME BEING. THUS, IN THE STORY, THE VYADHA AND THE WOMAN DID THEIR DUTY WITH CHEERFULNESS AND WHOLE-HEARTNESS, AND THE RESULT WAS THAT THEY BECAME ULLUMINATED, CLEARLY SHOWING THAT THE RIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF ANY STATION IN LIFE, WITHOUT ATTACHMENT TO RESULTS, LEADS US TO THE HIGHEST REALISATION OF THE PERFECTION OF THE SOUL.
IT IS THE WORKER WHO IS ATTACHED TO RESULTS THAT GRUMBLES ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE DUTY WHICH HAS FALLEN TO HIS LOT, TO THE UNATTACHED WORKER ALL DUTIES ARE EQUALLY GOOD, AND FORM EFFICIENT INSTRUMENTS WITH WHICH SELFISHNESS AND SENSUALITY MAY BE KILLED, AND THE FREEDOM OF THE SOUL SECURED. WE ARE ALL APT TO THINK TOO HIGHLY OR OURSELVES. OUR DUTIES ARE DETERMINED BY OUR DESERTS TO A MUCH LARGER EXTENT THAN WE ARE WILLING TO GRANT.
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COMPETITION ROUSES ENVY, AND IT KILLS AND KINDLINESS OF TEH HEART. TO THE GRUMBLER ALL DUTIES ARE DISTASTEFUL, NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY HIM, AND HIS WHOLE LIFE IS DOOMED TO PROVE A FAILURE. LET US WORK ON, DOING AS WE GO WHATEVER HAPPENS TO BE OUR DUTY, AND BEING EVER READY TO PUT OUR SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL. THEN SURELY SHALL WE SEE THE LIGHT!
