Description
The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit “Kri,” to do;
everything that is done is Karma. Technically, this word
also means the effects of actions. In connection with
metaphysics it sometimes means the effects of which our past
actions were the causes. But in Karma Yoga we have simply
to do with the word “Karma” as meaning work. The goal of
all mankind is knowledge; that is the one ideal placed before
us by the Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man,
but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is
the mistake of mankind to suppose that pleasure is the goal;
the cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men
foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal. After a time man finds
that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is
going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, that
he learns as much from evil as from good. As pleasure and pain
pass before his soul they leave upon it different pictures, and
the result of these combined impressions is what is called man’s
“character.” If you study the character of any man, what is it
really but the tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind?
Details
Publisher - OpenCulture
Language - English
Paperback
Author(s) - Swami Vivekananda
Published Date - August 21 2022
ISBN - 9781957830025
Dimensions - 21 x 14.8 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 84
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