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Publisher: Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi |
| Author Swami Vivekananda | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 171 | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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9x6 inch |
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Weight 410 gm |
| Edition: 2024 | |
| ISBN: 9789362083746 | |
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HBX046 |
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The word Karma is fully explained in the text of this book, but possibly it may not be out of place to give a brief idea of what is meant by Yoga. This word, which sounds strange to Western ears, is nevertheless an old friend in a foreign dress. Its literal meaning is " To join," and it has the same root (Yug) behind it as our own familiar word "yoke." When Yoga is used technically, it signifies union of the human with the Divine, and the particular name given to that union (or Yoga) stands for the method by which it is attained. Hence, Karma Yoga means the endeavor to reach Divine realization through unselfish work.
Karma Yoga might be called "applied ethics" in the highest sense, rather than a merely theoretical system. This book is in-tended to give an insight into the manner of so performing the inevitable tasks of daily life as to lift our lives out of the region of the humdrum and the commonplace and make them pathways to the loftiest heights of spiritual realization. It presents its own solution of the eternal problem how we, too, "can make our lives sublime," and gives an uplift to human endeavor on even the humblest planes.
Karma Yoga proclaims the dignity of labor in a way peculiarly its own, and has words of help and encouragement for all grades of toilers in the world's great work-shop.
To those who imagine that Vedanta teaches but one road to salvation, this book will be a revelation. Its language is unmistakable when it asserts over and over again that same height of spiritual realization that is reached by him who gives up the world, is also attained by him who knows how to live in the world and be not of it.
Karma Yoga admits the necessity of work, but shows us how to be free from its bondage, how to work as masters, not as slaves. We can so transmute our commonest actions into spiritual treasure, as to glorify existence and make it a gateway to Paradise.
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