Swami Vivekananda
KARMA-YOGA
"Such is the central idea of Karma-Yoga. The Karma-Yogi is the man who understands that the highest ideal is non-resistance, and who also knows that this nonresistance is the highest manifestation of power in actual possession, also what is called the resisting of evil is but a step on the way towards the manifestation of this highest power, namely, non-resistance. Before reaching this highest ideal, man's duty is to resist evil; let him work, let him fight, let him strike straight from the shoulder. Then only, when he has gained the power to resist, will non-resistance be a virtue."
"Work
through freedom! Work through love! … Therefore true
love can never react so as to cause pain either to the lover or to the
beloved. Suppose a man loves a woman; he wishes to have her all to himself
and feels extremely jealous about her every movement; he wants her to
sit near him, to stand near him, and to eat and move at his bidding.
He is a slave to her and wishes to have her as his slave. That is not
love; it is a kind of morbid affection of the slave, insinuating itself
as love. It cannot be love, because it is painful; if she does not do
what he wants, it brings him pain. With love there is no painful reaction;
love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love;
it is a mistaking something else for love. When you have succeeded in
loving your husband, your wife, your children, the whole world, the universe,
in such a manner that there is no reaction of pain or jealousy, no selfish
feeling, then you are in a fit state to be unattached. Krishna says:
Look at Me, Arjuna! If I stop from work for one moment the whole universe
will die. I have nothing to gain from work; I am the one Lord, but why
do I work? Because I love the world."
Swami Vivekananda: Karma-Yoga
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