Eight Lectures (Classic Reprint): Eight Lectures on Karma Yoga (the Secret of Work) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ell, Harvey Rowell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330525000 ISBN 13: 9781330525005

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

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Excerpt from Eight Lectures

Karma Yoga proclaims the dignity of la bor in a way peculiarly its own, and has words of help and encouragement for all grades of toilers in the world's great work shop.

To those who imagine that Vedanta teaches but one road to salvation, this book will be a revelation. Its language is un mistakable when it asserts over and over again that same height of spiritual realiza tion that is reached by him who gives up the world, is also attained by him who. Knows how to live in the world and be not of it.

Karma Yoga admits the necessity of work, but shows us how to be free from its bondage, how to work as masters, not as slaves. We can so transmute our com monest actions into spiritual treasure, as to glorify existence and make it a gateway to Paradise.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Vedanta Philosophy: Eight Lectures on Karma Yoga (the Secret of Work)

Karma Yoga proclaims the dignity of la bor in a way peculiarly its own, and has words of help and encouragement for all grades of toilers in the world's great work shop.

To those who imagine that Vedanta teaches but one road to salvation, this book will be a revelation. Its language is un mistakable when it asserts over and over again that same height of spiritual realiza tion that is reached by him who gives up the world, is also attained by him who. Knows how to live in the world and be not of it.

Karma Yoga admits the necessity of work, but shows us how to be free from its bondage, how to work as masters, not as slaves. We can so transmute our com monest actions into spiritual treasure, as to glorify existence and make it a gateway to Paradise.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Eight Lectures

The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit "Kri," to do; everything that is done 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 all mankind is knowledge; that is the one ideal placed before us by the Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is the mistake of mankind to suppose that pleasure is the goal; the cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, that he learns as well from good as from evil. As pleasure and pain pass before his soul they leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called man's "character." If you take the character of any man it really is but the tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness were equal factors in the formation of that character; good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. Ill studying the great characters that the world has produced I dare say that, in the vast majority of cases, it was misery that taught more than happiness; it was poverty that taught more than wealth; it was blows that brought out the inner fire, more than praise.

Now this knowledge, again, is inherent in a man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330525000
• ISBN 13: 9781330525005
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
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