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the world; it is much more difficult to live in the world and worship God than to give it up and live a free and easy life. The various stages of life have become shortened in India to two,--that of the householder and then of the preacher. The householder marries and carries on his duties as a citizen, and the duty of the man who gives up the world is to devote his energies wholly to religion, to preach and to worship God. Now you will see whose life is the more difficult one. As I read out to you a few beautiful passages from the Maha-Nirvana-Tantra, which treats of this subject, you will see that it is a very difficult task for a man to be a householder, and perform all his duties perfectly.
"The householder should be devoted to God; the knowledge of God should be his goal of life. Yet he must work constantly, perform all his duties; whatever he does he must give it up to God."
It is the most difficult thing to do in this-world, to work and not care for the result, to help a man
