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a nice house, for writing books-all desires ; (d) moksha, or liberation. Seeing that the nature of karma is to obscure some quality of the soul, some idea of the nature of the soul in the state of liberation may be gained by remembering what particular quality of the soul comes out upon the removal of the eight classes of karma. This rule No. 28 is that the layman should accept (should have) all these four objects of life, but in such a way that a higher object is not sacrificed for the sake of a lower one ; in such a way that there may not be any conflict between them. If there are difficulties in the way so far as kāma is concerned, then let it go but preserve dharma and artha. The order of these four objects is kâma, artha, dharma, moksha, the last being the highest.
29. In doing anything always consider your strength and your weakness; he should not undertake more than his strength will allow him to carry out.
30. Always attempt to rise higher and higher so far as the objects of life just mentioned are concerned.
31. Do or abstain from doing things that should be done or should not be done (respectively) at the right time. Stop doing a thing if it should not be done at that time.
32. The layman sliould hear the dharma every ...day. Or in the absence of a monk he should read
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