| The word Karma is derived from the Sanskrit | | | | tendencies, the sum total of the bent of his |
| Kri, to do; all action is Karma. Technically, | | | | mind; you will find that misery and happiness |
| this word also means the effects of actions. | | | | are equal factors in the formation of that |
| In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes | | | | character. Good and evil have an equal share |
| means the effects, of which our past actions | | | | in moulding character, and in some instances |
| were the causes. But in Karma-Yoga we have | | | | misery is a greater teacher than happiness. |
| simply to do with the word Karma as meaning | | | | In studying the great characters the world |
| work. The goal of mankind is knowledge. That | | | | has produced, I dare say, in the vast |
| is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern | | | | majority of cases, it would be found that it |
| philosophy.Pleasure is not the goal of man, | | | | was misery that taught more than happiness, |
| but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to | | | | it was poverty that taught more than wealth, |
| an end.It is a mistake to suppose that | | | | it was blows that brought out their inner |
| pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the | | | | fire more than praise. Now this knowledge, |
| miseries we have in the world is that men | | | | again, is inherent in man. No knowledge comes |
| foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to | | | | from outside; it is all inside. What we say a |
| strive for. After a time man finds that it is | | | | man "knows", should, in strict psychological |
| not happiness, but knowledge, towards which | | | | language, be what he "discovers" or |
| he is going, and that both pleasure and pain | | | | "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what |
| are great teachers, and that he learns as | | | | he "discovers", by taking the cover off his |
| much from evil as from good. As pleasure and | | | | own soul, which is a mine of infinite |
| pain pass before his soul they have upon it | | | | knowledge. To get more information visit |
| different pictures, and the result of these | | | | |
| combined impressions is what is called man's | | | | Swami Vivekananda was a prolific speaker, a |
| "character". If you take the character of any | | | | life changing catalyst and a real master of |
| man, it really is but the aggregate of | | | | spirituality. |