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Dharma and Duty-The Right Action at the Right Time - A Role for Everyone Part 03Our duties depend on our karmic inheritance, age, and position in life.We have duties in the world and duties in spiritual practice. Someduties are to ourselves; some are to others. For example, it may beappropriate for young people to work and establish a place forthemselves in the world. It is not wrong to earn a living and possiblygain wealth if we earn honestly and use wealth for the benefit ofothers. In youth we have family and social responsibilites. However,when we reach an advanced age we have the duty of detaching from theworld and fulfilling our spiritual search. Some of our duties are based on age; other relate to gender or position in life.So, too, every profession, every stage of life, each sex, each periodof life as fixed by age - childhood, boyhood, adolescence, youth,middle age, old age - has duties and

obligations, which set the normand guide the individual to benefit himself and society.Each of us must follow his or her own path. It is better to do our own duty poorly than to perform another's duty well. The duties we are called to perform may be determined by circumstances or factors beyond our control. Our freedom to follow a vhosen course may be limited due to our obligations. One individual may have freedom to choose his or her own path, while another may be restricted to a narrow range of opportunities. Each of us has personal duties and opportunities resulting from our past actions. We may exercise limited choice in determining what our program will be."Dharma is like a mother. One can choose a wife, but no one can choose a mother. Dharma is in the same position as one's mother is. We have no choice and we cannot transform dharma" BabaContinued... Dharma and Duty-The Right Action at the Right Time

-Like What You Have to Do Part 04================================================== WHEN

do we need Light? Not during the day, but when night prevails. Then we

need a lamp, a flame, the Moon; so too, until wisdom enlightens us, we

need Sadhana (spiritual practise); until we experience the one Unified

Divine, we have to accept and practice discipline, regulations and

Sadhana. Ignorance is the Night. Knowledge is the Light. Sathya Sai Baba