| Even if he is, he must first show that | | | | done for its own sake. We shall find |
| he has done the duty of his own | | | | that the philosophy of duty, whether it |
| position; and then higher duties will | | | | be in the form of ethics or of love, is |
| come to him. When we begin to work | | | | the same as in every other Yoga -- the |
| earnestly in the world, nature gives us | | | | object being the attenuating of the |
| blows right and left and soon enables us | | | | lower self, so that the real higher Self |
| to find out our position. No man can | | | | may shine forth -- the lessening of the |
| long occupy satisfactorily a position | | | | frittering away of energies on the lower |
| for which he is not fit. There is no use | | | | plane of existence, so that the soul may |
| in grumbling against nature's | | | | manifest itself on the higher ones. This |
| adjustment. He who does the lower work | | | | is accomplished by the continuous denial |
| is not therefore a lower man. No man is | | | | of low desires, which duty rigorously |
| to be judged by the mere nature of his | | | | requires. The whole organisation of |
| duties, but all should be judged by the | | | | society has thus been developed, |
| manner and the spirit in which they | | | | consciously or unconsciously, in the |
| perform them. Later on we shall find | | | | realms of action and experience, where, |
| that even this idea of duty undergoes | | | | by limiting selfishness, we open the way |
| change, and that the greatest work is | | | | to an unlimited expansion of the real |
| done only when there is no selfish | | | | nature of man. To get more information |
| motive to prompt it. Yet it is work | | | | visit : |
| through the sense of duty that leads us | | | | Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 |
| to work without any idea of duty; when | | | | business consultant, Vish Writer is the |
| work will become worship -- nay, | | | | author of the Amazon No 1 bestseller, |
| something higher -- then will work be | | | | "The Joy of Becoming God". |