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