Karma Yoga

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

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Even the lowest forms of work are not to be despised. Let the man, who knows no better, work for selfish ends, for name and fame; but everyone has always to try to get towards higher and higher motives and to understand what such motives are. "To work we have. the right, but not to the fruits thereof." Leave the fruits alone, leave results alone. Who care for results? When you wish to help a man, never think about what the man's attitude should be towards you. Do not care to understand or to appreciate results. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble yourself about what the results will be.
There arises a difficult question for consideration in relation to this ideal of work. Intense activity is necessary; we must always work. We cannot live a minute without work. What then becomes of ideal rest? Here is one picture of life-struggle, work; in it we are whirled rapidly round in the current of social life. And here is another picture that of calm, retiring renuncia. tion; everything is peaceful around you, there is
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