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If all enter the field of trade, who will purchase and consume the goods offered? If all start teaching, where are those who will learn and practise? If all command, who obeys? If all produce and grow, who will seek the products of their toil? It is to create the diversity that will contribute to unity, through the practice of Sathya and Dharma in every individual and social act, that the Lord has ordained the way of living according to the Varnadharma.

It is believed that Vritti followed the Varna, that occupation was based on the Varna; no, Varnas were so named on the basis of the Vrittis only. Today, there is neither Varna nor Vritti; one profession today, and another tomorrow - a Varna today; another tomorrow - it is this instability that lies at the root of the disturbed atmosphere of the world, of the discontent that has spread.

Infuse every profession and occupation with Inner Morality, with constant attachment to Truth, with the unperturbed equanimity of fortitude and, then, follow the duties of the Varna with its prescribed professions - that is the summum bonum, the supreme Blessing. If you fail to do this, the lot of man will be misery and chronic poverty. The choice is between the first, the Sriramaraksha, and the second, the Lokasiksha of Durbhiksha. Your Raksha (Saviour) from that siksha (punishment) is this Dharmasikshana (learning Dharma)!