Karma Yoga

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

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who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to get to heaven. They work just because good will come of it. There are others who do good to the poor and help mankind from still higher motives, because they believe it is good to do good and they love whatever is good. Now, to return to this matter of motives, those of name and fame. These motives seldom bring immediate result; name and fame, as a rule, come to us when we are old and have ‘almost done with life. If I, all my life, work for fame, I generally find I get a little in the long run; if I work for name, struggle all my, life for it I find in the end that I get a little name; similarly if I'want anything material I get it in the long run, and there it stops. But if a man works without any selfish motive in view what becomes of him ? Does. he not gain anything? Yes, he becomes
the highest gainer. Unselfishness is more paying, : only people have not the patience to practise it: :
It is more paying in physical value also. Love, and truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral