Karma Yoga

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

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sacrifice like that, but nowhere have I found one ; nowhere else has the other half of my body been turned into gold. That is why I say this is no sacrifice."
* This idea of charity is going out of India ; grand men are becoming less and less. When I was first learning English I read an English story book, where the first story was about a dutiful boy who had gone out to work and had giveni some of his money to his , old mother, and this was praised in three or four pages. What was that after all ? No Hindu boy can ever under: stand the great moral merit of that story. Now I understand it when I hear the Western ideaevery man for himself. And some men take everything for themselves, and fathers and mothers and wives and children go to the wall. That should never and nowhere be the ideal of the householder. " : Now you see what Karma-Yoga means ; even at the point of death to help any one, without asking questions. Be cheated millions of"times