What is karma yoga? It is the knowledge of the secret of work. We see that the whole universe is working. ... Instead of being knocked about in this universe, and after long delay and thrashing, getting to know things as they are, we learn from karma yoga the secret of work, the method of work, the organizing power of work.
Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.99.
A current rushing down of its own nature falls into a hollow and makes a whirlpool and, after running a little in that whirlpool, it emerges again in the form of the free current to go on unchecked. Each human life is like that current. It gets into the whirl, gets involved in this world of space, time and causation, whirls round a little, crying out, "my father, my brother, my name, my fame," and so on, and at last emerges out of it and regains its original freedom. The whole universe is doing that.
Whether we know it or not, whether we are conscious or unconscious of it, we are all working to get out of the dream of the world. Our experience in the world is to enable us to get out of its whirlpool.
Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 10, 1896. Complete Works, 1.98-99.
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