Karma Yoga

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

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together are called “ Karma," work, action. Every mental and physical blow that is given to the soul to make it strike fire, discover its own power and knowledge, is Karma, this word being used in its widest sense; so we are all performing Karma all the time in our lives. I am talking to you; that is Karma. You are listening; that is Karma. We breathe; that is Karma. We walk; Karma. We talk; Karma. Everything we do, physical or mental is Karma, and it is steadily leaving its marks on us.
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• There are certain works which are, as it were, the aggregate, the sum total, of a large number of smaller works. If we stand near the seashore and hear the waves dashing against the, shingle' we think it is such a great noise, and yet we know that one big wave is really composed of millions and millions of minute waves; each one of these is making a noise, and yet we do not catch its sound it is only when they become the big aggregate that we catch the loud sound. So every pulsation of the heart is contributing to the grand total of
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