Karma Yoga
Swami Vivekananda · 1896
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About the book
Eight New York lectures on the yoga of work: act with everything you have and let go of the result, because attachment — not action — is what binds. Vivekananda at his most practical, for people with jobs rather than caves.
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Part 1 · Every task leaves a mark. The first six slides, free.
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The word comes from the Sanskrit "kri", to do. Everything that is done is karma. Vivekananda knows the word carries a heavier meaning too, the effects that past actions bring back to us, and for these lectures he deliberately sets it aside. In Karma Yoga, karma simply means work.
And work, in his sense, is nearly everything. He is talking to his audience: that is karma. They are listening: karma. Breathing, walking, talking, a thought picked up and dropped again: all of it karma.
So before any question of working well or badly, notice how large the claim is. You are not someone who works for eight hours and then stops. You are doing karma every waking minute, and every bit of it leaves its mark.
Inside the course
12 parts- Karma: how work shapes characterFree above
- «Each is great in his own place»
- The secret of work: non-attachment
- What is duty? — and who defines yours
Questions
Is Karma Yoga free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. Karma Yoga is waiting in the app’s library.
