Your Own Duty
Fulfilling your duty is the highest accomplishment - higher than other sadhana*, penance and the rest. Your own duty comes first. I want you to become brave warriors and attend carefully to your own duties. This is good for you.
Aug. 17, 1982
All living beings - including animals, flowers, birds, stones - have been given a form (body) by God, and this form has been given by God a duty to perform in this world. But when human beings come into this world they forget their duty and they fall under an attachment to Maya (the illusions of Creation, of the material world); they fall into "me" and "mine" and so they forget God.
Feb. 2, 1983
You should do your work, whatever it may be, to the best of your ability.
Feb. 13, 1983
All must strive to do their duty in the best way possible and not wander from that duty. Service to humanity is the first duty.
Sept. 30, 1982
*Sadhana - literally "a means of accomplishing something," is an ego-transcending spiritual practice. It includes a variety of disciplines that are followed in order to achieve various spiritual or ritual objectives.
