Just because things don’t work the way they worked in the past does not mean that the world has come to an end; it just means that we need to find a new way to make things work in the world as it exists presently. Some people are not just followers of tradition but they sometimes become so absolutely beholden to tradition that when one thing doesn’t work the way it worked in the past, they think that it is the end of the world. However, the reality is that the world keeps changing, and we humans have been given the intelligence to find ways to make things work – even if the way things will work today is different from the way they worked in the past.

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16.24 One should therefore understand what is duty and what is not duty by the regulations of the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated.