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so settled, it becomes a duty. It is, so to say, a sort of chronic disease. When it is acute we call it disease, when it is chtonic we call it' natute: It is a disease. So when attachment becomes chronic, we Baptize it with the high-sounding name of duty: We střew howers upon it; trumpets sound for it, sacred texts are said over it, and then the whole world fights, and men earnestly rob each other for this duty's sake. Duty is good to the extent that it checks brutality. To the lowesť kinds of men, who cannot have any other ideał, it is- of some good; but those who want to be Karmid-Yogins must throw even this idea of duty overboard. There is no duty for you and me Whatever you have to give to the world, do give by alb.means, but not as a duty. Do not take amy thought of that. Be not compelled. Why should you be compelled ? Every thing that you da:under compulsion goes to build up attachment. Why should you have any duty ? " Resign every thing into God." " In this tremendous fiery furnace where the fire of duty scorches everybody,
