Book Title: Karma Yoga
Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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________________ 33 attempt to break down the very ridge poles of the spiritual roof, and in their ignorant and superstitious conceptions of truth try to drive away all that is life-giving, all that furnishes the formative material to the spiritual plant growing in the human soul-such forms of religion find too soon that all of what is left to them is but an empty shell, a contentless frame of words or perhaps sophistry, with a little flavour of social scavengering, the so-called spirit of reform. The vast mass of those whose religion is like this are conscious or unconscious materialists-the end and aim of their lives here and hereafter being enjoyment. That is why yo or works like street-cleaning and scavengering intended to increase the material comfort of man are to them the alpha and the omega, the "be-all" and the "end-all" of human existence! The sooner the followers of this curious mixture of ignorance and fanaticism come out in their true colours, and join, as 3 THE AIM OF BHAKTI-YOGA.

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