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out of it and regains its original freedom. The whole universe is doing that. Whether we know it or not, whether we are conscious or unconscious of it, we are all working to get out of the dream of the world. Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.
But what is Karma-Yoga? It is the knowledge of the secret of work. We see that the whole universe is working. For what does it do so? For salvation, for liberty; consciously or unconsciously every thing from the smallest atom to the highest being is working for that; working with the one aim of obtaining liberty for the mind, for the body, for the spirit, and for everything; all things are always trying to get freedom, they are flying away from bondage. The sun, the moon, the earth, the planets, all are trying to fly away from bondage. The centrifugal and the centripetal forces of nature are indeed typical of our ụniverse. Karma-Yoga tells us the secret and the "" method of work. Instead of our being, knocked about in this universe, and after long
