KARMA YOGA

CHAPTER-1; Part-1 

The Effect of Karma on Character 

knowledge as the Goal of Life

knowledge is the goal of mankind, not pleasure, as man mistakenly thinks. Pleasure and pain, happiness and suffering are our teachers. Through their impact on the mind, character develops. Often it is suffering that helps the development of character more than happiness. It acts as a friction that brings out the inner fire.  

All knowledge from is inherent in man. It does not come from outside. All external factors are only stimulations that help its manifestation. Like fire in a piece of flint, knowledge exists in the mind. Work, with its consequences of enjoyments and sufferings, is the friction that brings it out. Every mental and physical activity is like a blow administered to the soul, by which fire is struck, as it were, from it, and its power and knowledge are made to manifest. This is the nature and function of Karma in its widest sense. [To be continued] 

SOURCE: FOUR YOGAS, condensed and retold by Swami Tapasyanandaji 

FOUR YOGAS

There are mainly four Yogas or Spiritual paths for God realization. Swami Vivekananda  gave either speeches or wrote on these Yogas. These Yogas of Swami Vivekananda were condensed and retold by Swami Tapasyanandaji and will be posted here regularly. May Swamiji inspire and bless you through his words to reach goal of  your life.

KARMA YOGA:

The manner in which a man realizes his own divinity through works and duty.

BHAKTI YOGA:

The realization of the divinity through devotion to, and love of, a Personal God.

   

RAJA YOGA: 

The realization of the divinity thro’ the control of mind.

JNANA YOGA:

    The realization of a man’s own divinity through knowledge.

 SOURCE BOOK DETAILS: Four Yogas by Swami Tapasyanandaji, 

                                 Publisher: Advaita Ashrama, Kolkata.