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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
do you want, brother? How can I serve you?” Out of curiosity they will be just looking at him from a distance. Can you call these people true Vaishnavites or Bhaktas? Can there be an iota of real benefit in their meditation or Bhajan? A Jinda Narayan (living Narayan) in the form of a sick patient is in a dying state. They have not got the heart to go and serve him or even to speak a few kind and encouraging words at a critical juncture, when his life is trembling in the balance! How can they expect to have Darshan of that all-merciful Hari when they have hearts made of flint? How can they hope for God-realization when they have not the eyes to see God in all beings and the spirit of service to serve Him in all these forms?
That man who has knowledge and devotion can alone do really efficient service to the country and the people Jnana and Bhakti must be the rockbottom basis of Karma Yoga. Jnana can be combined with Karma Yoga, or Bhakti Yoga can be combined with Karma Yoga in the beginning with much advantage. The Jnana-Karma-Yogi thinks and feels that he is serving his own Atman and realizes Adwaitic consciousness The Bhakti-Karma-Yogi thinks and feels that he is serving his Lord in all, his own Ishtam and realizes God-consciousness and has Darshan of his Beloved. Mere philanthropical work out of sympathy without devotion and knowledge is nothing more than social scavengering. It is not Yoga or worship. It is on a lowez plane. It cannot elevate a man
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