Karma Yoga

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

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spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, and not before then, We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum ; we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes,
We read in the Bhagavat-Gita again and again that we must all work incessantly, and that all work is by nature composed of good and evil. We cannot do any work which has not some part of good somewhere; there cannot be any work which has not a tendency to cause some harm somewhere. Every work that is done must necessarily be a mixture of good and evil; yet we are commanded to work incessantly; the good and the evil will both have their results, will produce their Karma ; the good action will entail upon us good effect ; the bad action, bad effect; and good and bad, are both bondages of the soul. The solution reached in the Gita in regard to this bandage-producing nature of work is that, if we donat attach, ourselves to the work we do, it will