Karma Yoga (book)

{{Short description|Book of lectures by Shree Swami Vivekananda, published in 1896}}

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| author = Swami Vivekananda

| language = English

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| subject = Philosophy

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| pub_date = 1896

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Karma Yoga ({{lit.|The Yoga of action}}) is a book of lectures by Swami Vivekananda, as transcribed by Joseph Josiah Goodwin. It was published in February 1896 in New York City.{{cite web|title=Udbodhan publication|url=http://www.udbodhan.org/pub.htm|publisher=Udbodhan, Kolkata|access-date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303100329/http://www.udbodhan.org/pub.htm|archive-date=3 March 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|last=Michelis|first=Elizabeth De |author-link=Elizabeth De Michelis |title=A history of modern yoga : Patañjali and western esotericism|year=2005|publisher=Continuum|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=0826487726|pages=124|edition=Repr.}} Swami Vivekananda delivered a number of lectures in his rented rooms at 228 W 39th Street in New York City from December 1895 to January 1896. In 1895, friends and supporters of Swami Vivekananda hired Goodwin, a professional stenographer, who transcribed some of the lectures which were later published as this book. Goodwin later became a follower of Vivekananda.{{cite web|title=Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda|url=http://www.jesusjay.org/2011/06/karma-yoga-by-swami-vivekananda.html|access-date=21 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827125153/http://www.jesusjay.org/2011/06/karma-yoga-by-swami-vivekananda.html|archive-date=27 August 2011|url-status=dead}}