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364 TALKS ON " AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER " the matter was submitted to the Master, and He was asked, for the sake of His pupil, whether this partic- ular thing should be done. He said:ci Yes, for the sake of the rest of the family who mfght be shocked or troubled, you may go down for an hour at such and such a time, but be very careful that, during that time, you repeat nothing whatever which you do not understand, that you in no case repeat things blindly after the priest and that you do not allow anything to be done for you that you can do for yourself,—that is, in the way of ceremonies and bless- ings and so forth." So there, quite evidently, in the best of good faith, an attempt was being made to force upon the boy a duty which was certainly not his to do. I take it that it is just possible tfcat the special reference here may have been to that and to similar cases. Be sure that it is a real duty and not one that people are trying to impose upon you when clearly it does not belong to you. We find that so in the Hindu religion, but people even here often expect from you, as duties, things which are clearly not necessary parts of your duty. I can quite imagine, for example, that people might expect from some of our members attendance at all sorts of social functions and so on, and the members might very well say that they have not time. A member might say: te I am willing to give up a reasonable amount of time for the sake of keeping on friendly terms with people," and they will be quite justified, no doubt about that. This