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may be? The man who works through freedom and love need not care for results, as he is himself altogether unselfish and his work cannot react so as to produce pain anywhere.
Do you ask anything from your children in return for what you have given them? It is your duty to work for them, and there the matter ends. Whatever you wish to do for a particular person, a city, or a state, do it by all means, but assume the same attitude as you have towards your
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children-expect nothing in return. If you can incessantly take the position in which you are always the giver, in which everything given by you is a free offering to the world, without any thought of any return, then will not your work bind you by attachment. Attachment comes only where we expect something in return for what we do.
If working like slaves results in selfishness and attachment to results, working as masters of our own minds gives rise to the bliss of unattachment. We often talk of right and justice, but we find
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