Karma Yoga

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

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their traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal Karma-Yoga, and if you have attained to that you have really learned the secret of work.
But we have to begin from the beginning, to take up the various kinds of work as they come to us and slowly make ourselves more and more unselfish every day. We must do the work that has fallen to our lot and find out the motive power that is behind it, prompting us to do the work; and, almost without exception, in the first years, we shall find that our motives are always selfish; but gradually this selfishness will melt away by our persistence, and at last will come the time when we shall be able to do really unselfish work, at least now and then. Then we all may hope that'some day or other, as we roll down the river of life, will come to us the time when we shall become perfectly unselfish; and the moment we become that, all our powers will get