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DUTY OR MOTIVE IN KARMA
is free from all duties, from all bondage, from all attachment to his physical nature. He does not seek sense pleasure, neither does he care to preserve the lower self nor to protect the body, because he realizes that he is not the body but soul. Even when the body is torn in pieces, he is not moved, but holds to the consciousness of his spiritual nature, his Atman or divine Self, which cannot be cut in pieces, cannot be burnt by fire, moistened by water or dried by air. In realizing this, he also works without thought of return. Even those who do their duty with the hope of return, cease to think of results when they begin to be actuated by love; and all work performed through this higher motive of love takes the form of acts of worship of the supreme Spirit.
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न चैन क्ल दयन्तापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥ अच्छद्योऽयमदायोऽयमक्क द्योऽशीष्य एव च ।
:-Bhagavad Gita, Ch. II, 23-24.
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