正义并不意谓义务：在义务中，无自由可言。在原因中，就有自由，而在宗教责任中，义务与原因之间就有其结合的存在。正义于是就有宗教责任的含义，而在那字眼里就有义务与原因两者的理念了。

而什么是正义？实行你所教导的，做你所说的，身教与言教一致。取之有道，不作非份之想；生活于敬畏神之中，为达至神而生活：那就是正义（dharma）。

你的义务到底是什么？让我给你总结。第一，对父母要孝顺，敬爱，感恩。第二，言必真，行必正。第三，一有空闲就心想神，口念圣号。第四，决不说他人坏话或找他人缺点。最后，不要伤害他人，不论以什么方式。

正义的特征在于神圣，平和，真理和刚毅。正义是修行，团结，融合；它是真理（Sathya 真）。其属性是公正，感官控制，荣誉感，大爱，尊严，美善，禅定，恻隐之心，非暴力：此乃正义，历久不衰。它带领我们达至大爱和大同。

所以，每一种职业，每一生命阶段，每一个性别，每一个由年龄决定的生命期 -- 童年，孩提，青少年，中年，老年 -- 都一样有其义务与责任，制定准则和指导个人去从事利益自己也造福社会的工作。

正义就像一个母亲。你可以选择一个妻子，但你不能选择一个母亲。正义跟一个人的母亲处于同样的地位。我们别无选择而我们也不能改变正义。

快乐幸福的秘诀不在于你喜欢做的而在于喜爱你必须做的。不论你必须做的是什么工作，你都应该以喜爱和愉悦的心情去做。

你的良心知晓喜悦的真正源头；它鼓动你步上正途。你的工作就是接受它为一个“向导”而不是在它每一次抵触你的奇想时，你就违背它。

身体是神的庙宇。神寓于每一个身体之内，不论身体的主人知之与否。鼓励你诸恶莫作，众善奉行的就是神。聆听那声音。遵从那声音而你就不会受到伤害了。

无论谁，只要压抑他的自我，征服他自私的欲望，摧毁他兽性的感觉和冲动，并且放弃他视肉身为他自己的自然倾向，他肯定步上正义之道。他知道正义的目标就是海浪融合于海洋，即，小我融合于大我。

当你步向神时，任何反对声都置之不理。钵罗赫拉德（Prahlada)反抗他父亲，维毗沙那（Vibhisana)反抗他兄长，巴拉苏罗摩（Parasurama)不得不使母亲受创，米拉（Meera）不能听命于她的丈夫：他们坚持神的道路并突破所有反对者的阻挠。

如果神自己在此鼓励和促进正义而你又从事同样的任务，那么，你就正在膜拜他了。那么，你就跟他很亲近，很接近了，因为你正在服务他，服务他的信徒和你自己。

不论你做什么，不论你被置于什么位置，要相信那是神安排你做那份工作的。

吠陀（Veda）已告诉我们，把我们的工作分成两个部分而说某种工作是你的，某种是神的，那是一大罪行。在我们一生必须做的所有工作中，没有什么是你可以称为你自己的工作的。全都是神的工作。你应该相信你所有的工作都是神的工作而去做，然后全在的主就会照顾你工作的结果了。

稍加练习即可教会你紧紧抓住神的脚，当你在世间徜徉，执行所有的义务，以及 ，肩负所有奉献给他的责任，的时候。

持着戏中演员的心态去做你一切的工作，把你的身份分开而不执着于你的个性或你的角色。记得整个事情仅是一出戏而主已给你指定一个角色。演好你的角色：你的所有义务就终结了。他设计了这出戏而他也乐于欣赏之。

要重建的不是正义，因为正义是不变的和不毁灭的。神化身就是为了正义的实行而诞生的。

自由是你与生俱来的权利，不受到束缚。只有在你沿着宇宙无限正义所照亮的道路去迈开你的脚步时，你才得到真正的自由。

你的义务是渴望达到‘一’（万物一体）的意识，在这表面上的‘众多’的背后。

The word dharma does not mean duty: in duty there is no freedom. In reason there is freedom, and in religious obligation there is the union between duty and reason. Dharma, then, refers to religious obligation, and in that word are the concepts of both duty and reason.

And what is dharma,? Practicing what you preach, doing as you say it has to be done, keeping precept and practice in line. Earn virtuously, yearn piously; live in the fear of God, live for reaching God: that is dharma.

What exactly is your duty? Let me summarize it for you. First, tend your parents with love and reverence and gratitude. Second, speak the truth and act virtuously. Third, whenever you have a few moments to spare, repeat the name of the Lord with the form in your mind. Fourth, never indulge in talking ill of others or try to discover faults in others. And finally, do not cause pain to others in any form.

Dharma is characterized by holiness, peace, truth, and fortitude. Dharma is yoga, union, merger; it is sathya (truth). Its attributes are justice, sense control, sense of honor, love, dignity, goodness, meditation, sympathy, nonviolence: such is dharma that persists through the ages. It leads one on to universal love and unity.

So, too, every profession, every stage of life, each sex, each period of life as fixed by age – childhood, boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age, old age – has duties and obligations, which set the norm and guide the individual to benefit himself and society.

Dharma is like a mother. One can choose a wife, but no one can choose a mother. Dharma is in the same position as one’s mother is. We have no choice and we cannot transform dharma.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. Whatever work you have to do, you should do it with pleasure and liking.

Your conscience knows the real source of joy; it will prod you towards the right path. Your business is to take it as a “guide” and not disobey it every time it contradicts your fancy.

The body is the temple of God. In every body, God is installed, whether the owner of the body recognizes it or not. It is God that inspires you to good acts and warns you against the bad. Listen to that voice. Obey that voice and you will not come to any harm.

Whoever subdues his egoism, conquers his selfish desires, destroys his bestial feelings and impulses, and gives up the natural tendency to regard the body as self, he is surely on the path of dharma. He knows that the goal of dharma is the merging of the wave in the sea, the merging of the self in the Overself.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is divine.

When you travel towards God, whoever objects has to be bypassed. Prahlada went against his father, Vibhisana went against his brother, Parasurama had to harm his own mother, Meera could not obey her husband: they stuck to the path of God and broke through all those who opposed them.

Sathya Sai Speaks 7, p. 444

If God himself is here to foster dharma and you engage yourself in the same task, then you are worshipping him. Then you are near and dear to him, for you are serving him, his devotees, and yourself.

Whatever you do, wherever you are placed, believe that God has put you there for that work.

Veda (the sacred teaching) has told us that it is a sin to divide our work into two parts and to say that something is your work and something is God’s work. In all the work that we have to do in our life, there is nothing that you can call your own work. Everything is God’s work. You should do all your work believing that it is God’s work and then the omnipresent Lord will take care of the results.

A little practice will teach you to hold fast to the feet of God while roaming about in the world, doing all duties and carrying all responsibilities as dedicated to him.

Do all work as actors in a play, keeping your identity separate and not attached to your personality or your role. Remember that the whole thing is just a play and the Lord has assigned you a part. Act well your part: there all your duty ends. He has designed the play and he enjoys it.

It is not dharma which needs to be reestablished, for dharma is unchanging and indestructible. It is the practice of dharma for which the avatars are born.

To be free is your birthright, not to be bound. It is only when you guide your steps along the path illumined by the universal unbound dharma that you are really free...

Your duty is to yearn for the attainment of the consciousness of the One, behind all this apparent multiplicity.