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duties as a matter of love; not as a matter for argument. If you begin to argue you connect it with Artha and Kama. What is it that I get out of it? What is the love and the quantum of love that I have to display in each case? Now all that is not there. Duty is duty. But then, that is so far as social life is concerned detachment occurs. But, you are not capable of deciding what duty is; there are conflicts between duties, what you call "Dharma Sankata", under such circumstances, what is the guide? It is good to go to a man who knows how to reason between the duties and values, put them in the balance, of course, as a judge and advise you. But such men must be people who know with insight what duty should be preferred to another in the clash. Normally, the ancients did not make these duties to clash with each other. And therefore, you must look up from the point of view where they do not clash. But nowadays, that is not the view. You want a man who is very highly judicial in his temper and is anxious to guide and not mislead. Therefore, you want something else. And this something else is only God, or what you call Conscience. You must develop the power to hear directly the voice of god. And how to develop that contact with God, because it is a very personal application of a universal difficulty. And each man has to develop that Consciousness. And you do not have judges enough with either the competence or with Spirituality and not matters of property. We do not have direct contact with God. We take somebody's advice and follow. That's all. Now, we want a more assured guide in a world with such conflicting situations where duties clash and many duties have been forgotten, thanks to our training and all that. I think nobody cares to study the Dharma Sastras despite Sri Krishna's advice to follow Manu, even the best of the followers of Sri Krishna do not want to touch Manu. I do not think anybody has heard the name even. Whatever it is Master says Meditation is the right way of starting the detachment and the performance of duties. Meditation means getting contact with the Ultimate Consciousness through Pranahuti and that will start our link with the God and as it grows stronger and stronger, our detachment becomes stronger and stronger and completer and completer. Then, every other thing fails. In fact, in this system, we start with Dhyana and not with Yama, Niyama, Pranayama or Asana. Why? What is central to Yoga is the connection with God and once that connection with God is made, then every other physiological or physical posture or adjustment or moulding happens naturally. In other words, we proceed to change man not by changing his