Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 18
Secondly, for a person whose aim is to receive worldly pleasures, prosperity, luxuries, honour and praise etc., it is obligatory to discharge his duty, according to his caste. If he does not do so, he has a downfall. Even the Vedas, abandon such a demoralized person, at the time of his death, even though he has studied, the six supplementary branches of sacred sciences, (the Vedas) viz., education (Siksa), ritual part of the Vedas (Kalpa), an exposition of the Vedaingas (Nirukta), metre (Chanda), grammar (Vyakarana) and astrology, (Iyotisa). But, he whose aim is God-realization, practises chanting, meditation, adoration, study of scriptures and performs, other spiritual activities, in order to attain his aim. In the spiritual discipline, spiritual feelings and conduct, play a more important role, than Varna or Caste. Thirdly, a striver, having the aim of God-realization, attaching more importance to spiritual activities, performs his obligatory duty, according to his caste and stage of life, regarding it as worship to God.
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