Guru yoga. Meditation on the duty. It is necessary in the study of karma-yoga to know what is duty. If I do something I know that this is my first duty, and then I can do. In addition, among the people there are different ideas about the duty. The Mohammedans say that what is written in the Koran, it is their duty, the Hindus, which is in the Vedas is his duty, and the Christians, that their duty is what is in the Bible. We see that there are different ideas of duty, which change according to the different stages of life, different historical periods and different peoples. The term "duty", as with any other term abstract universal, it is impossible to define clearly only we can get an idea of what is the practical knowledge of their mode of action and results. When certain things happen to us, we have a natural impulse to act or acquired in a certain way about them when you come on this momentum, the mind begins to think about the situation, sometimes, think it is good to act a certain way under certain conditions, and others that view is wrong and even in identical circumstances. The idea of duty is, everywhere, that every good man must follow the dictates of their conscience.
But what is it that makes an act a duty? If a Christian finds a piece of meat and not eat to save his own life, or not given to save another, without doubt, feel that they have not fulfilled their duty. But if a Hindu dares to eat it or give it to another, to feel safe, too, not having fulfilled his duty, custom and education of the Hindu and it will feel. In the last century in India was remarkable band of thieves called thugs, believed that their duty was to kill anyone and could take away his money, the higher the number of victims thought the better of them. Typically, if a man goes out to the street and throws a shot to another paternally feel sorry for this, thinking he has done wrong, but if this man, like a regimental soldier, kills not one but twenty, surely will feel satisfied and think it has done its job perfectly well. Therefore, we see that is not what is defined as a duty. Give an objective definition of the duty is, therefore, entirely impossible. However, there is a duty from a subjective point of view. Any action that brings us closer to God is good, and it is our duty, any action that we cut is not bad and it is our duty. From this standpoint, we see that certain acts have a tendency to exalt and ennoble, while others tend to degrade and brutalize. But it is not possible to establish with certainty that the trend will have certain acts in relation to all individuals, by class and status. There are, however, a single idea of duty that has been universally accepted by all mankind in all ages, sects and countries, and has been synthesized in a Sanskrit aphorism, as in: "Do not do any harm to be, do not for any damage, it is virtue; hurting anyone, is sin. "
