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OCR: Manual-labour essential for earning one's bread is 'bread-labour'. For Gandhiji, it is the yajna of the body, i.e ., physical labour. Bodily yajna is as essential for himas brahmacharya. Purification of the mind is achieved by mental yajna and that of the alman by yajna of the atman. Similarly bodily yajna alone can purify the body. He says, "We must perform the duties arising from the existence of the body. Eating, bathing, going from place to place for begging, all these we do, thinking themto be legitimate activities, and show aversion only to bread-labour ... " He adds: "One may not performit with one's whole heart behind it and so deceive people, that would be another matter; but perform it, one must."