THE ONENESS OF EXISTENCE

XVIII-46 

Better is one's own duty, though unhonoured, than the work of another even if well performed. He who does the work indicated by his own nature incurs no sin. 

XVIII-47

The work to which you are born, though involving defects, ought not to be abandoned. All undertakings, indeed, are clouded by defects as fire by smoke. 

XVIII-48

He who holds his inner Spirit unbound, whatever he may do, whose self is well-controlled and who is free from desire, attains by such renunciation that supreme goal which is the aim of renunciation of action. 

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