Karma Yoga
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 1 illegible passage, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~40,000 words · 190 passages
Cite this work
- APASwami Vivekananda. (n.d.). Karma Yoga. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/karma-yoga
- MLASwami Vivekananda. Karma Yoga. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/karma-yoga.
- ChicagoSwami Vivekananda. Karma Yoga. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/karma-yoga.
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What it is about
Karma Yoga: the path of selfless action.
Context and history
Lectures given in New York in 1895–96. Vivekananda argues that withdrawal from the world is not required: liberation can be reached through work, if the work is done without attachment to its result. It is Vedanta explained to Westerners who went to the office every day.
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whom half a world worships? How do you explain the gulf between the carpenter and his son, whom millions of human beings worship as God? It cannot be solved by the theory of heredity. The gigantic will which Buddha and Jesus threw over the world, whence did it come? Whence came this accumulation of power? It must have been there through ages and ages, continually growing bigger and bigger, until it burst on society in a Buddha or a Jesus, even rolling down to the present day. All this is determined by Karma, work. No one can get anything unless he earns it. This is an eternal law. We may sometimes think it is not so, but in the long run we become convinced of it. A man file:///CI/Documents%20and%20Settings/Chitra%20Selv...ivekananda/BooksBySwami/KarmaYoga/KarmaYogaPDF.html (6 of 88)2/25/2007 9:26:35 PM Karma Yoga
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