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cannon and the din of war, and you will find yourself to be free and at peace.
! Karma-Yoga teaches us that the ordinary idea of duty is on the lower plane; nevertheless, all of us have to do our duty. Yet we may see that this peculiar sense of duty is very often a great cause of misery. Duty becomes a disease with us; drags us ever forward. It catches hold of us and makes our whole life miserable. It is the bane of human life. "This duty, this idea of duty is the mid-day summer sun which scorches the innermost soul of mankind.” Look at those poor slaves to duty. Duty leaves them no time to say prayers, no time to bathe. Duty is ever on them. They go out and work, Duty is on them • They come home and think of the work for the next day. Duty is on them! It is living a slave's life, at last dropping down in the street and dying in harness, like a horse. This is duty as it is understood. The only true duty is to be unattached and to work as free beings, to give up all work unto God. All our duties are His.
