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delay and thrashing, getting to know things as they are, Karma-Yoga teaches us the secret of work, the method of work, the organizing power of work. A vast mass of energy may be spent in vain, if we do not know how to use and utilise it. Karma-Yoga makes a science of work, you learn by it how best to utilise all the workings of this world. Work is inevitable, it must be so; but we have work to the highest purpose. KarmaYoga makes us admit that this world is a world of merely five minutes; that it is a something we have inevitably to pass through; and that freedom is not here, but is only to be found beyond. To find the way out of the bondages of the world we have to go through it slowly and surely. There may be those exceptional persons about whom I just spoke, those who can stand aside and give up the world, as a snake casts off its skin and stands aside and looks at it; there are no doubt, some of these exceptional beings; but the rest of mankind have to go slowly through the world of work and Karma-Yoga shows us the
