DUTY.
Duty means what is owing or due to be done either by natural, moral, or legal obligation. It is of two kinds*[1] :—
1. The Duty that devolves upon us by Nature, and
2. The Duty that is due from . us to others or that is self-imposed.
The Sanskrit names for these are Daivika Duty and Powrusha Duty. If you perform your duty in both ways, you will certainly please God.
Belief in God and the worship of Him also come under the first heading, because He is the Creator of us all.
- ↑ * In this classification, I differ from some philosophers, who have also divided duty into two kinds, but differently, namely (1) Duty to God, (2) Duty to man. Our duties to God which I have included under Daivika duty, are stated by them as a separate class of duties; and all the rest of our duties are included by them under duties to man.
