| He must struggle to acquire a good name by all | | | | activity, the duty of the householder. There is a |
| means. He must not gamble, he must not move in the | | | | passage later on, where it says that "if the |
| company of the wicked, he must not tell lies, and must | | | | householder dies in battle, fighting for his country or his |
| not be the cause of trouble to others. | | | | religion, he comes to the same goal as the Yogi by |
| Often people enter into things they have not the | | | | meditation," showing thereby that what is duty for one |
| means to ccomplish, with the result that they cheat | | | | is not duty for another. At the same time, it does not |
| others to attain their own ends. Then there is in all | | | | say that this duty is lowering and the other elevating. |
| things the time factor to be taken into consideration; | | | | Each duty has its own place, and according to the |
| what at one time might be a failure, would perhaps at | | | | circumstances in which we are placed, must we |
| another time be a very great success. | | | | perform our duties. |
| The householder must speak the truth, and speak | | | | One idea comes out of all this -- the condemnation of |
| gently, using words which people like, which will do | | | | all weakness. This is a particular idea in all our |
| good to others; nor should he talk of the business of | | | | teachings which I like, either in philosophy, or in religion, |
| other men. | | | | or in work. If you read the Vedas, you will find this |
| The householder by digging tanks, by planting trees on | | | | word always repeated -- fearlessness -- fear nothing. |
| the roadsides, by establishing rest - houses for men | | | | Fear is a sign of weakness. A man must go about his |
| and animals, by making roads and building bridges, goes | | | | duties without taking notice of the sneers and the |
| towards the same goal as the greatest Yogi. | | | | ridicule of the world. |
| This is one part of the doctrine of Karma-Yoga -- | | | | |