Verse 33

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Serve him with your own work· Verses 33–36

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So serve him and no other, with the workings of your own selves, with what mind and speech and body can do, with your own works, without pretence: his lotus feet, which yield what is wished, each of you gaining the end set by his own office. In his own nature a mass of clear knowing, beyond the strands, he becomes here the sacrifice of many strands, through the various substances and qualities and acts and utterances, through their objects and intentions and marks and names. Entering as awareness this body, which is a gathering of nature and time and disposition and their properties, the all-pervading one is made out as the fruit of action, as fire is in wood, taking on what the wood is.

See what a kindness these people of mine do me: firm in their vows, they worship without a break on the face of the earth, by the practice of their own duty, Hari the teacher, the sovereign of those who eat the offering.