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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Our Own Past Actions, It Certainly Follows F(Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, 2013), 1.52–4 ISSN 0032-6178 R.N. 2585/57 REGISTERED Postal Registration No. Kol.RMS/096/2013–15 Published on 1 November 2014 RABUDDHA 9 770032 617002 P HARATA B or AWAKENED INDia A monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896 November 2014 Vol. 119, No. 11 ` 10.00 If undelivered, return to: ADVAITA ASHRAMA, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata 700 014, India ISSN 0032-6178 R.N. 2585/57 REGISTERED Postal Registration No. Kol.RMS/096/2013–15 Published on 1 December 2014 RABUDDHA 9 770032 617002 P HARATA B or AWAKENED INDia A monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896 December 2014 Vol. 119, No. 12 ` 10.00 If undelivered, return to: ADVAITA ASHRAMA, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata 700 014, India THE ROAD TO WISDOM Swami Vivekananda on The Purpose of Work s is Karma, so is the manifestation Aof the will. The men of mighty will the world has produced have all been tremendous workers—gigantic souls, with wills powerful enough to overturn worlds, wills they got by persistent work. Such a gigantic will as that of a Buddha or a Jesus could not be obtained in one life. The gigantic will which Buddha and Jesus threw over the world, that whatever we wish to be in future whence did it come? Whence came can be produced by our present actions; this accumulation of power? All this so we have to know how to act. You will is determined by Karma, work. No one say, ‘What is the use of learning how can get anything unless he earns it. This to work?’ But there is such a thing as is an eternal law. We may sometimes frittering away our energies. You must think it is not so, but in the long run remember that all work is simply to we become convinced of it. A man may bring out the power of the mind which struggle all his life for riches; he may is already there, to wake up the soul. The cheat thousands, but he finds at last that power is inside every man, so is knowing; he did not deserve to become rich, and the different works are like blows to his life becomes a trouble and a nuisance bring them out, to cause these giants to him. We may go on accumulating to wake up. Man works with various things for our physical enjoyment, but motives. Some people want to get fame, only what we earn is really ours. A fool and they work for fame. If a man works may buy all the books in the world, and without any selfish motive in view, does they will be in his library; but he will be he not gain anything? Yes, he gains the able to read only those that he deserves highest. Unselfishness is more paying, to; and this deserving is produced by only people have not the patience to Karma. Our Karma determines what we practise it. Love, truth, and unselfishness deserve and what we can assimilate. We are not merely moral figures of speech, are responsible for what we are; and but they form our highest ideal, because whatever we wish ourselves to be, we in them lies such a manifestation of have the power to make ourselves. If power. what we are now has been the result of rom The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, our own past actions, it certainly follows F(Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, 2013), 1.52–4. 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