Book Title: Karma Yoga
Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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________________ [ 130 ) everything for, these babies. Do not teach you children such nonsense. Then again, there are people who are foolish in another way; they teach us that all these animals were created for us to kill and eat, and that this universe is for the enjoy. ment of men. That is all foolishness. A tiger may say, “Man was created for me," and pray "O Lord, how wicked are these men, who do no come and place themselves before me to be eaten; they are breaking your law." If the worlo is created for us, we are also created for the world. That this world is created for our enjoy. řent is the most wicked idea that holds us down This world is not for our sake ; millions pass out of it every year; the world does not feel it millions of others are supplied in their place Just as much the world is for us, we are also foi the world. : .. ; To work properly, therefore, you have first to give up the idea of attachment. Secondly, ď not mix iti the fray, hold yourself as a witness and go on working. My old master used to say

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