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THE IDEAL OF THE KARMAYOGIN fulfilled nor allows him to reject her. There fore Srikrishna tells Arjuna.
Tu mafia tolygfa wargi
मियर व्यवसाय प्रकृतिका नियोचाति । "The thought which thou thinkest and takes refuge in egoism saying, 'I will not fight,' this thy resolve is a vain thing; Nature will yoke thee to thy work.” When a man seems to have rejected his work, it merely means that his work is over and Kali leaves him for another. When a man who has carried out a great work is destroyed, it is for the egoism by which he has misused the force within that the force itself breaks him to pieces as it broke Napoleon. Some instruments are treasured up, some are fung aside and shattered, but all are instruments. This is the greatness of great men, not that by their own strength they can determine great events, but that they are serviceable and specially forged instruments of the Power which determines them. Mirabeau helped to
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