Ideal of Karmayogin

Author(s): Aurbindo Ghose
Publisher: Prabartak Publishing House

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KARMA YOGA
take refuge with the Inner Guide and Teacher. All men are potentially capable of it, for there is no man who has not strength or faith or love developed or latent in his sature, and any one of these is a sufficient staff for the Yogin. All cannot, indeed, reach in a single life the highest in this path, but all can go forward ; and in proportion as a man advances be gets peace, strength and joy. And even a little of this dharma delivers man or na. tion out of great fear.
_ "सरपम बस पखवावते महतोमवार ।'
It is an error, we repeat, to think that spirituality is a thing divorced from life. “Abandon all” says the laba Upanishad "that thou mayst enjoy all, neither covet any man's possession. But verily do thy deeds in this world and wish to live thy hundred years ; no other way is given thee than this to escape the bondage of thy acts." Hję an error to think that the heights of religion are above the struggles of this world. The recurrent cry of Sri
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