Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
Karma Yoga
A book by Swami Vivekananda
Based on lectures the Swami delivered in his rented rooms at 228 W 39th Street in December, 1895 and January, 1896. The classes were free of charge. Generally the Swami held two classes daily- morning and evening.
Although the Swami delivered many lectures and held numerous classes in the two years and five months he had been in America, these lectures constituted a departure in the way they were recorded. Just prior to the commencement of his Winter -95-96 season in NYC, his friends and supporters aided him by advertising for and ultimately hiring a professional stenographer: The man selected, Joseph Josiah Goodwin, later became a disciple of the Swami and followed him to England and India.
Goodwin's transcriptions of the Swami's lectures form the basis of five books.
- Chapter 1: Karma in its effect on character
- Chapter 2: Each is great in his own place
- Chapter 3: The secret of work
- Chapter 4: What is duty?
- Chapter 5: We help ourselves, not the world
- Chapter 6: Non-attachment is the complete self-abnegation
- Chapter 7: Freedom
- Chapter 8: The ideal of Karma-Yoga
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