New Age Spirituality – Inspirational Stories ( Part 9 )
So it is with duty. The idea of duty varies much among different nations. In one country, if a man does not do certain things, people will say he has acted wrongly; while if he does those very things in another country, people will say that he did not act rightly — and yet we know that there must be some universal idea of duty. In the same way, one class of society thinks that certain things are among its duty, while another class thinks quite the opposite and would be horrified if it had to do those things.
Two ways are left open to us — the way of the ignorant, who think that there is only one way to truth and that all the rest are wrong, and the way of the wise, who admit that, according to our mental constitution or the different planes of existence in which we are,duty and morality may vary. The important thing is to know that there are gradations of duty and of morality — that the duty of one state of life,in one set of circumstances, will not and cannot be that of another.
To illustrate: All great teachers have taught, “Resist not evil,” that non –...