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CHAPTER IV.
WHAT IS DUTY? It is necessary in the study of Karma-Yoga to know what work is, and with that comes naturally the question what duty is. If I have to do something I must first know my duty in regard to it, and then it is that I can do it well. The idea of duty, as already shewn, is so different in different nations. The Mohammedan says that what is written in his book, the Quran, is his duty; · the Hindu says that what is in his book, the Vedas, is his duty; and the Christian says that what is in his Bible is his duty. So we find that there are and must be varied ideas of duty, differing according to different states in life, and differing with different historical periods and with different nations. The term “duty," like every other universal abstract term, it: is impossible clearly to define; we can only get an idea of it by describing its surroundings and by knowing its
