Karma Yoga

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

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work; certain kinds of work we feel and they become tangible to us; they are, at the same time, the aggregate of a number of small works. “If you really want to judge of the character of a man look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man doing his most common actions ; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. · Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same 'wherever he be.
Karma in its effect on character is the most tremendous power that man has to deal with. Man is as it were, a centre, and he is attracting all the powers of the universe towords himself, and in this centre he is fusing them all and ejecting them again in a big current. Such a centre is the real man, the almighty, the omniscient, and he draws the whole universe towards him; good and bad, imisery and happiness, all are running towards him,