Ref#16: Karma Yoga
' .... thousands of us are, for our whole life, meditating
on Om, are getting ecstatic in devotion in the name of the Lord,
and are crying, 'Thy will be done, I am fully resigned to Thee!' -
and what are they getting in return? Absolutely nothing! How
do you account for this? The reason lies here, and it must be
fully understood. Whose meditation is real and effective? Who
can really resign himself to the Will of God? Who can utter with
power irresistible, like that of a thunderbolt, the name of the
Lord? It is he who has earned Chitta-shuddhi, that is, whose
mind has been purified by work, or in other words, he who is
the Dharmika.
'Each individual is a centre for the manifestation of a
certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of
our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force
at his back. So long as this force has not worked itself out, who
can possibly remain quiet and give up work?'
Vivekananda,
Complete Works, Vol. 5 (1979 edition): pp447-453.
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