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thine allotted task! Work is more excellent than idleness; The
body's life proceeds not lacking work. There is a task of
holiness to do, Unlike world-binding toil, which binded
not The faithful soul; such earthly duty do Free from desire, and
thou shalt well perform Thy heavenly purpose. Spake Prajapati- In
the beginning, when all men were made, And, with mankind, the
sacrifice- "Do this! Work! sacrifice! Increase and multiply
With sacrifice! This shall be Kamaduk, Your 'Cow of Plenty,' giving
back her milk Of all abundance.
Worship the gods thereby; The gods shall
yield thee grace. Those meats ye The gods will grant to Labour, when
it pays Tithes in the altar-flame. But if one eats Fruits of the
earth, rendering to kindly Heaven No gift of toil, that thief steals
from his world." Who eat of food after their sacrifice Are quit
of fault, but they that spread a feast All for themselves, eat sin
and drink of sin.
By food the living live; food comes of
rain, And rain comes by the pious sacrifice, And sacrifice is paid
with tithes of toil; Thus action is of Brahma, who is One, The
Only, All-pervading; at all times Present in sacrifice. He that
abstains To help the rolling wheels of this great world, Glutting
his idle sense, lives a lost life, Shameful and vain.
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