Karma and Rebirth

Author(s): Christmas Humphereys
Publisher: Albemarle Street London

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KARMA AND DUTY and then : “Let no one forget his own duty for the sake or another's, however great ; let a man, when he has discerned his own duty, be always attentive to it.” This does but echo the admonition of the Bhagavada Gita, that “there is danger in another's duty", and this belief is the basis of the Eastern virtue of minding one's own business which the West, in its enthusiasm for social service and good works, is apt to ignore. In either part of the world, however, all pilgrims of the Path agree that * the immediate work, whatever it may be, has the abstract claim of duty, and its relative importance and non-importance is not to be considered at all ”.. And again, “ There can be no permanent rest or happiness as long as there is some work to be done, and not accomplished, and the fulfilment of duties brings its own reward”.1 He who is wise has faith in the Law, and knows that in doing what he believes to be right he is using the Law to the advantage of mankind.
1 Practical Occultism, H. P. Blavatsky.
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