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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
pleasant thoughts, mental recreation and the practice of cheerfulness.
May we all work unselfishly with perfect harmony and healthy co-operation for the well-being of the world and for our own uplift! May our limbs and organs grow strong and healthy! May we live to the normal length of our earthly days—a hundred years --doing selfless service, studying the Vedas and developing all Sattwic virtues! May we shine with the knowledge of Brahman, radiating joy, peace, bliss and knowledge to the different corners of the world!
14. SECRET OF KARMA YOGA Attachment is the first child of Maya. This whole Lila of the Lord is kept up by the force of attachment. A sober man just tastes a small peg of champagne when he is caught up in evil company and he becomes an inveterate drunkard through attachment to liquor. A teetotaller just takes a whiff of gold-flake and becomes a terrible smoker in a short time through attachment There is in the mind a gummy substance which is like a mixture of castor oil, glue, mucilage, gum-arabic, gluten paste, honey, gylcerine, jack-fruit juice and all other pasty substarces of this world The mind is glued, as it were, to the objects with this mixture. Therefore the attachment is very strong.
Man always thirsts for possession of objects, wife and cattle This possession of objects surely brings
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