Karma in its effect on character- Swami Vivekananda
S ilver Jubilee Celebrations: Halasuru, January 2025 Ramakrishna Math, Halasuru, Karnataka January 4, 2025 Ramakrishna Math, Halasuru, Karnataka January 4, 2025 =========================================================================================== Sunday 05, January 2025, Chicago 1893 Karma-Yoga Chapter 1. ======================================================================================== The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit Kri, to do; all action 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 mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries w...