Karma Yoga (book)
 Karma Yoga of Swami Vivekananda front cover | |
| Author | Swami Vivekananda |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Philosophy |
Publication date | 1896 |
Karma Yoga (The Yoga of action) is an English book of Swami Vivekananda, the book was published in February 1896 from New York.[1][2] Swami Vivekananda delivered a number of lectures in his rented rooms at 228 W 39th Street in New York City from December in 1895 and January, 1896. In 1895-1895, friends and supporters of Swami Vivekananda hired a professional stenographer Joseph Josiah Goodwin (who later became a follower of Vivekananda). Goodwin recorded some of the lectures of Vivekananda, and those lectures were published as the book Karma Yoga in 1896.[3]
Theme
The main topic of the book was Karma (work) and Karma Yoga. Swami Vivekananda discussed the concept of Karma in the Bhagavada Gita. Swami Vivekananda described Karma Yoga is a mental discipline that allows a person to carry out his/her duties as a service to the entire world, as a path to enlightenment.[4]
Chapters
- Karma in its Effect on Character
- Each is great in his own place
- The Secret of Work
- What is Duty?
- We help ourselves, not the world
- Non-attachment is complete self-abnegation
- Freedom
- The Ideal of Karma-Yoga
References
- ^ "Udbodhan publication". Udbodhan, Kolkata. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ Michelis, Elizabeth De (2005). A history of modern yoga : Patañjali and western esotericism (Repr. ed.). London [u.a.]: Continuum. p. 124. ISBN 0826487726.
- ^ "Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda". Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ "Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda". http://www.holybooks.com/. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
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