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

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________________ [150] lets them all go at last and becomes unattached. The former way of obtaining non-attachment is by reasoning, and the latter way is through work and experience. The first is the path of Jnana-Yoga, and is characterised by the refusal to do any building work; the second is that of Karma-Yoga, in which there is no cessation from doing work. Every one must work in the universe. Only those who are perfectly satisfied with the Self, whose desires do not go beyond the Self, whose mind never strays out of the Self, to whom the Self is all in all, only those do not work. The rest must all work. A current rushing down freely in accordance with its own nature falls into a hollow and makes a whirlpool, and, after running round and round a little in that whirlpool, it emerges again in the form of the free current to go on unchecked. Each human life is like that current. It gets into the whirl, gets involved in this world * of space, time, and causation, there whirls round a little, crying out my father, my brother, my name, my fame, and so on, and at last emerges.

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