Karma Yoga

Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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KARMA-YOGA.
KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER.
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THE word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit "Kri" to do; everything that is done is Karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics it sometimes means the effects of which our past actions are the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have simply to do with the word "Karma", as meaning work. The goal for all mankind to aim at is knowledge of truth; that is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake of man to suppose that pleasure is the goal; the cause of all the miseries we have in the world is