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CHAPTER III, UNSELFISH CHARITY IS 'THE SECRET OF
SAVING WORK. Helping others physically, by relieving their physical needs, is indeed great; but the help is greater, according as the need is greater and according as the help is far reaching. If a man's want can be removed for an hour, it is helping him indeed; if his wants can be removed for a year it will be more help to him; if his wants can be removed for ever, it is surely the greatest help that can be given him. Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can remove our miseries for ever; any other knowledge satisfies wants only for a time. If the nature of the man be changed, then alone all his wants will vanish for ever. It is only with the knowledge of the spirit that the faculty of want is annihilated for ever ; so helping man spiritually is the highest help that can be given, ko him ; he who gives *man spiritual knowledge
