Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action. It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy. The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service. As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. | 
