further consideration, must be my motive, if what I do is to be of moral value.

And in the same place (Matth. vi. 2) we find it stated with perfect truth that ostentations almsgivers ?p????s?? t?? �?s??? a?t??. (Get in full — exhaust their reward.) Although, in this respect too, the Vedas shed on us the light of a higher teaching. They repeatedly declare that he, who desires any sort of recompense for his work, is still wandering in the path of darkness, and not yet ripe for deliverance. If any one should ask me what he gets from a charitable act, my answer in all sincerity would be: “This, that the lot of the poor man you relieve is just so much the lighter; otherwise absolutely nothing. If you are not satisfied, and feel that such is not a sufficient end, then your wish was not to give alms,