Karma Yoga

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From Rabindranath Tagore:

 

" O Giver of thyself! at the vision of thee as joy, let our souls flame

up to thee as the fire, flow on to thee as the river, permeate thy

being as the fragrance of the flower. Give us strength to love, to

love fully, our life in its joys and sorrows, in its gains and losses,

in its rise and fall. Let us have strength enough fully to see and

hear thy universe, and to work with full vigor therein. Let us fully

live the life thou hast given us, let us bravely take and bravely

give. This is our prayer to thee. Let us once and for all dislodge

from our minds the feeble fancy that would make out thy joy to be a

thing apart from action, thin formless, and unsustained. Wherever the

peasant tills the hard earth, there does thy joy gush out in the green

of the corn, wherever man displaces the entangled forest, smooths the

stony ground, and clears for himself a homestead, there does they joy

enfold it in orderliness and peace. O worker of the universe! "