Karma Yoga

Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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apple tree you must take the apple standard; and for the oak, there is its own standard; and so it is with all of us. 125103
Unity in variety is the plan of the creation. However men and women may vary individually, there is certainly unity in the background. Nevertheless, the different individual characters and classes of men and women are natural variations in the law of creation. Hence, we ought not to judge all of them by the same standard or put the same ideal before them. Such a course creates only an unnatural struggle, and the result is that man begins to hate himself and is hindered from becoming truly religious and good. Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live unto his own highest ideal, and strive at the same time to make this ideal as near as possible to the truth.
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In the Hindu system of morality we find that this fact has been recognized from very ancient times; and in their scriptures and books on ethics different rules are laid down for the different classes