Book Title: Karma Yoga
Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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________________ [ 160 ] Blessed are we that we are ordered out here. We serve our time; whether we do it. ill or well, who knows? If we do it well, we do not get the fruits. If we do it ill, neither do we get the care. Be at rest, be free, and work. This kind of freedom is a very hard thing to attain. How easy it is to interpret slavery as duty-the morbid attachment of flesh as duty! Men go out into the world and struggle and fight for money or for any other thing to which they feel an attachment. Ask them why they do it. They say :-"It is a duty.” It is the absurd greed for gold and gain, and they try to cover it with a few flowers. . What is duty after all? It is really the impulsation of the flesh, of our attachment; and when an attachment has become established, we call it duty. . For instance, in countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife ; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations ;. and when it becomes

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