Review: Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda is one of the most inspirational authors and a great leader. Swami Vivekananda Books are always an influential motivation for Youth. In this post we will review one of his best creations, Karma Yoga, which is based on lectures that Swami delivered in his rented rooms from New York in 1896. This book speaks about Karma in the Bhagavad Gita. Swami Vivekananda described Karma Yoga as a mental discipline that allows a person to carry out his/her duties as a service to the entire world, as a path to enlightenment.”Karma” this word is actually taken from Sanskrit. Technically Karma means the effects of actions.

The book is like a set of lectures by Swami Vivekananda on the subject of Karma Yoga, one of the several yogic paths to enlightenment. By working in the real world, but giving up attachment to work, we can obtain spiritual liberation. Swami Vivekananda discusses the concept of Karma in the Bhagavad Gita, and singles out the Buddha as a primary example of this form of yoga. Moreover, the book also shows righteous path towards knowledge and wisdom. “No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside”. All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering.

This book is an influential guide for humans, which preaches us that Karma in its effect on character is the most tremendous power that man has to deal with. Man is, as it were, a centre, and is attracting all the powers of the universe towards him, and in this center is fusing them all and again sending them off in a big current. Human being always lives for the motive some for fame, some for money or may be some for respect in the life. It seems that everyone is selfish. Hence, Swami Vivekananda suggested everyone to begin from the beginning to take up the work as they come to us and slowly make ourselves more unselfish every day.

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