Karma-yoga and Bhakti-yogaThe goal of life is really knowledge, of the reality of things. We are apt to think that it is pleasure, and seeking pleasure in sense-gratification, we meet with so many disappointments and sorrows that we sometimes almost despair and are led to believe that all life is a vain dream with no sure foundation anywhere. It is an endless chain of cause and effect in which we are involved, and from which only knowledge of how to act without producing reaction can ever free us. Karma Yoga is meant to teach us exactly this, to make clear to us first the causes of our bondage, and secondly the method of getting rid of the causes and to avoid the effects. |
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Each Is Great in His Own Place | 13 |
The Secret of Work | 32 |
What Is Duty? | 45 |
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action ahimsā Arjuna asked Ātman attachment attain beautiful become Beloved bhakti bhakti-yoga blessed body bondage Brahman brothers Buddha called causation comes death Dhritarashtra divine Draupadi Duryodhana duty eternal everything evil father feel forest freedom Gita give goal happiness heart heaven higher highest ideal Hindu householder human husband idea India infinite Isvara karma karma-yoga kind king knowledge Krishna kshattriyas Lakshmana live Lord Mahābhārata manifestation means mind misery mother nature never non-attachment ourselves Pandavas perfect person philosophy pleasure pratika priests princess Prophet Rāma Rāmānuja Rāmāyana reached realize religion religious renunciation result sacrifice sage Samkhya sannyasin sattva Savitri scriptures selfish Sita soul Sphota spiritual Śri Śruti struggle Supreme Sutras symbols Tantra teacher teaching things thou thought throne tion true truth unselfish unto Vedanta Vedas whole universe wife word worship yoga yogi Yudhishthira