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of reincarnation contains convincing, cogent, logical, forcible and sound arguments in support of rebirth.
In the sixth chapter I have stated that neophytes should combine action and meditation and that those who can meditate for twenty-four hours are very, very rare, and that such people should take to exclusive meditation in the solitary caves of the Himalayan jungles I have made a sincere and whole-hearted appeal to whole-timed Sannyasins to organise their order of life and start doing service to the country in various forms according to the temperament, taste and capacity of the individual This is the dire need of the present hour Not very long ago Mahatma Gandhi himself once appealed to the Sannyasins at Hardwar in this regard and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then President of the Indian National Congress addressed a mammoth meeting of Sadhus and Sannyasins last year at the same place and in a similar strain. As no real service can be done without Brahmacharya, I have added a small article on this subject towards the end of the chapter.
The seventh chapter is allotted to 'Karma Yoga in the Gita' The articles ‘Prakriti does Everything', Action and Inaction', Scope for Personal Exertion', 'Action and Actor', 'Self-surrender', and ‘Karma Yoga is better than Renunciation of Action', make the chapter complete. I want my readers to read this chapter over and over and understand the full significance of Karma Yoga
The eighth chapter makes the book really useful You have some very illuminating and inspiring stories which have been chosen with care and added in the hope that the book will be of practical utility to the
| SR No. | 011086 |
| Book Title | Practice of Karma Yoga |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Swami Sivananda |
| Publisher | Divine Life Society |
| Publication Year | 1980 |
| Total Pages | 329 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 30 MB |