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duties without taking notice of the sneers and the ridicule of the world.
If a man gives up and goes out of the world to worship God, he must not think that those. who live in the world and work for the good of the world, are not worshipping God; neither must those who live in the world, for wife and children, think that those who give up the world are low vagabonds. Each is great in his own place. This thought I will illustrate by a story.
A certain king used to inquire of all the Sannyasins that came to his country, "Which is the greater man--he who gives up the world and becomes a Sannyasin, or he who lives in the world and performs his duties as a householder,?” Many wise men sought to solve the problem. Some asserted that the Sannyasín was the greater, upon which theʻking demanded that they should prove their assertion. When they could not, he ordered them to marry and become householders. Then others came and said "The householder who performs his duties
