WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD: SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.
===================================================================================== MONDAY 28, APRIL 2025, 08:00. VOLUME I KARMA YOAGA CHAPTER V WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. ==================================================================================== WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD: Before considering further how devotion to duty helps us in our spiritual progress, let me place before you in a brief compass another aspect of what we in India mean by Karma. In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual. Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of great men, stories and fables of wonderful things, and so on; ritual gives to that philosophy a still more concrete form, so that every one may grasp it — ritual is in fact concretised philosophy. This ritual is Karma; it is necessary in every religion, because most of us cannot un...