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of both will prevail--the Sattva. Again, in different men, a different one of these forces is generally. predomiņant. The characteristic of one man is inactivity, dulness and laziness; the characteristic of another man is activity, power, manifestation of energy; and in still another man we find the sweetness, calmness and gentleness which are due to the balancing of both action and inaction. So in all creation-in animals, in plants and in men.we find the more or less typical manifestation of all these different tendencies or forces. . • Karma-Yoga has specially to deal with these three elements or tendencies of nature. By teaching us what they are and how we are to employ them it helps us to do our work in life the better. Human, society is a graded organization. It is an organism in which there are different grades and states. We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in various countries the significance of morality differs greatly. What is regarded as moral in one country, in another may be perfectly