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secret of work.” When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being. This worship of work is for its own sake. Thus, in this story, the butcher and the woman did their duty with cheerfulness and whole-heartedness and willingness; and the result was that they became illuminated. Every duty is holy, and devotion to duty is the highest form of the worship of God'; it is certainly a source of great help in enlighten. ing and emancipating the deluded and ignoranceencumbered soul of the Baddhas—the bound ones. This story clearly shows us that the right performance of the duties of any station in life, without our being attached to results and consequences, leads us to the highest realisation of the perfection of the soul.
. Our duties are largely determined by our environments, and there can be no high and low in regard to them. It is the worker who is attached to results that grumbles about the nature
