Karma Yoga

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

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and clinging round him; and out of them he fashions the mighty stream of tendency called character and throws it outwards. As he has the power of drawing in anything, he has also the power of throwing it out to act and fructify:
Now, all the actions that we see in the world,. all the movements in human society, all the works that we have around us, are simply the display of thought, the manifestation of the will of man. Machines or instruments, or cities, or ships, or men-of-war, everything is simply the manifestation of the will of man; and this will is caused by character and character is manufactured by Karma. As is Karma, so is the manifestation of the will. The many men of mighty will whom the world has produced have all been tremendous workers-huge, gigantic men, with wide wills, powerful enough to overturn worlds ; and they got that kind of wilt by persistent work, through: ages and ages. Such a gigantic will as that of a Buddha or a Jesus cannot be got as the result of works in one life, for we know who