HOW TO WORK HARD WITHOUT KARMA!

                              THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

                                       (KARMA YOGAM)

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                                 ACCORDING TO KARMA-YOGA, THE ACTION ONE HAS DONE CANNOT BE DESTROYED UNTIL IT HAS BORNE ITS FRUIT,  NO POWER IN NATURE CAN STOP IF FROM YIELDING ITS RESULTS. IF I DO AN EVIL ACTION, I MUST SUFFER FOR IT, THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. THERE IS NO POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE TO STOP OR STAY IT. SIMILARLY, IF I DO A GOOD ACTION, THERE IS NO POWER IN THE UNIVERSE WHICH CAN STOP ITS BEARING GOOD RESULTS. THE CAUSE MUST HAVE ITS EFFECT, NOTHING CAN PREVENT OR RESTRAIN THIS. NOW COMES A VERY FINE AND SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT KARMA-YOGA-NAMELY, THAT THESE ACTIONS OF OURS, BOTH GOOD AND EVIL, ARE INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH EACH OTHER. WE CANNOT PUT A LINE OF DEMARCATION AND SAY, THIS ACTION IS ENTIRELY GOOD AND THIS ENTIRELY EVIL.

                         THERE IS NO ACTION WHICH DOES NOT BEAR GOOD AND EVIL FRUITS AT THE SAME TIME.  TO TAKE THE NEAREST EXAMPLE. I AM TAKING TO YOU, AND SOME OF YOU, PERHAPS, THINK I AM DOING GOOD, AND AT THE SAME TIME I AM , PERHAPS, KILLING THOUSANDS OF MICROBES IN THE ATMOSPHERE, I AM THUS DOING EVIL TO SOMETHING ELSE. WHEN IT IS VERY NEAR TO US AND AFFECTS THOSE WE KNOW, WE SAY THAT IT IS VERY GOOD ACTION IF IT AFFECTS THEM IN A GOOD MANNER. FOR INSTANCE, YOU MAY CALL MY SPEAKING TO YOU VERY GOOD, BUT THE MICROBES WILL NOT, THE MICROBES YOU DO NOT SEE, BUT YOURSELVES YOU DO SEE. THE WAY IN WHICH MY TALK AFFECTS YOU IS OBVIOUS TO YOU, BUT HOW IT AFFECTS THE MICROBES IS NOT SO OBVIOUS. AND SO, IF WE ANALYSE OUR EVIL ACTIONS ALSO, WE MAY FIND THAT SOME GOOD POSSIBLY RESULTS FROM THEM SOMEWHERE. HE WHO IS GOOD ACTION SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING EVIL IN IT, AND IN THE MIDST OF EVIL SEES THAT THERE IS SOMETHING GOOD IN IT SOMEWHERE, HAS KNOWN THE SECRET OF WORK.

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                         THE SECOND POINT TO CONSIDER IT, WHAT IS THE END OF WORK? WE FIND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN EVERY COUNTRY BELIEVING THAT THERE WILL BE A TIME WHEN THIS WORLD WILL BECOME PERFECT, WHEN THERE WILL BE NO DISEASE, NOR DEATH, NOR UNHAPPINESS NOR WICKEDNESS. THAT IS A VERY GOOD IDEA, A VERY GOOD MOTIVE POWER TO INSPIRE AND UPLIFT THE IGNORANT, BUT IF WE THINK FOR A MOMENT, WE SHALL FIND ON THE VERY FACE OF IT THAT IT CANNOT BE SO. HOW CAN IT BE, SEEING THAT GOOD AND EVIL ARE THE OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE SAME COIN? HOW CAN YOU HAVE GOOD WITHOUT EVIL AT THE SAME TIME? WHAT IS MEANT BY PERFECTION? A PERFECT LIFE IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. LIFE ITSELF IS A STATE OF CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE BETWEEN OURSELVES AND EVERYTHING OUTSIDE. 

                        EVERY MOMENT WE ARE FIGHTING ACTUALLY WITH EXTERNAL NATURE, AND IF WE ARE DEFEATED, OUR LIFE HAS TO GO. IT IS, FOR INSTANCE, A CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE FOR FOOD AND AIR. IF FOOD OR AIR FAILS, WE DIE. LIFE IS NOT A SIMPLE AND SMOOTHLY FLOWING THING, BUT IT IS A COMPOUND EFFECT. THIS COMPLEX STRUGGLE FLOWING BETWEEN SOMETHING INSIDE AND THE EXTERNAL WORLD IS WHAT WE CALL LIFE. SO IT IS CLEAR THAT WHEN THIS STRUGGLE CEASES, THERE WILL BE AN END OF LIFE.

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                    THUS THE MAN THAT HAS PRACTICED CONTROL OVER HIMSELF CANNOT BE ACTED UPON BY ANYTHING OUTSIDE, THERE IS NO MORE SLAVERY FOR HIM. HIS MIND HAS BECOME FREE. SUCH A MAN ALONE IS FIT TO LIVE WELL IN THE WORLD. WE GENERALLY FIND MEN HOLDING TWO OPINIONS REGARDING THE WORLD. SOME ARE PESSIMISTS AND SAY, "HOW HORRIBLE THIS WORLD IS, HOW WICKED". SOME OTHERS ARE OPTIMISTS AND SAY, 

                      "HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS WORLD IS, HOW WONDERFUL". TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT CONTROLLED THEIR OWN MINDS, THE WORLD IS EITHER FULL OF EVIL OR AT BEST A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL. THIS VERY WORLD WILL BECOME TO US AN OPTIMISTIC WORLD WHN WE BECOME MASTERS OF OUR OWN MINDS. NOTHING WILL THEN WORK UPON US GOOD OR EVIL, WE SHALL FIND EVERYTHING TO BE IN ITS PROPER PLACE, TO BE HARMONIOUS. SOME MEN, WHO BEGIN BY SAYING THAT THE WORLD IS A HELL, OFTEN END BY SAYING THAT IT IS A HEAVEN WHEN THEY SUCCEED IN THE PRACTICE OF SELF-CONTROL. IF WE ARE GENIUNE KARMA-YOGIS AND WISH TO TRAIN OURSELVES TO THAT ATTAINMENT OF THIS STATE,

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                 WHEREVER WE MAY BEGIN WE ARE SURE TO END IN PERFECT SELF-ABNEGATION, AND AS SOON AS THIS SEEMING SELF HAS GONE, THE WHOLE WORLD, WHICH AT FIRST APPEARS TO US TO BE FILLED WITH EVIL, WILL APPEAR TO BE HEAVEN ITSELF AND FULL OF BLESSEDNESS. ITS VERY ATMOSPHERE WILL BE BLESSED, EVERY HUMAN FACE THERE WILL BE GOD. SUCH IS THE END AND AIM OF KARMA-YOGA, AND SUCH IS ITS PERFECTION IN PRACTICAL LIFE.