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the noblest work is done only when there is almost no motive urging us from behind. Yet it is work through the sense of duty that leads us to work without any idea of duty; when work will become worship-nay, something higher, then work will stand alone for its own sake. But that is the highest ideal, and the way to it lies through duty. We shall find that the philosophy behind all conceptions of duty, whether it be in the form of ethics or of love, is the same as in every kind of Yoga--the object being the attenuating of the lower self so that the real higher self may shine forth in glory; to circumscribe the frittering away of energies on the lower planes of existence, so that the soul may manifest itself on the higher and grander planes. This is accomplished by the continuous denial of low desires, which duty rigorously requires. The whole organization of society has thus been developed consciously or unconsciously on the land of actions and in the field of experience, where, by limiting the low desires of selfishness, we open the way to an
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