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Chapter IIe

Each is vowed to die for the other, if need be, and nothing is denied the brother-friend, but neither is anything required that is not in accord with the highest conceptions of the Indian mind.
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Themes
Love Of Neighbourethics

Active compassionate care for others as a central spiritual obligation or expression of divine love.

The passage centrally describes a bond of self-sacrificial devotion ('vowed to die for the other') and total openness ('nothing is denied') between individuals.

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