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Karma Yoga

Swami Vivekananda

The yoga of action: how work done without attachment to its fruits purifies the mind and leads to freedom. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita, Vivekananda develops an ethic of duty relative to each person ('each is great in his own place'), the idea that in helping the world we help ourselves, and the ideal of work for work's sake. It is the doctrinal foundation of the Ramakrishna Mission and of social service as spiritual practice.