In the study of Karma Yoga is a traditional theme. The word karma is derived from Sanskrit KRI, which means doing, all action is karma. Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics is sometimes the effects of which our past actions were the causes. But in the karma yoga, we just have to treat the word as meaning karma action. The goal of mankind is knowledge, this is the ideal placed before us only by Eastern philosophy. The goal of man is not pleased but the knowledge. Pleasure and happiness are completed. It is a mistake to assume that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men think, foolishly, that pleasure is the ideal to be achieved. After a while the man who found happiness is not what you want but the knowledge that the pleasure and pain are great teachers and learn both the good and the bad. After the pleasure and pain to the individual soul, leave it on different images and the results of these combined impressions is what is called "character." If you consider the character of any man will notice that only a cluster of trends, the total sum of the inclinations of his mind, will find that misery and happiness are all factors that also gravitate to the formation of that character. Good and evil have a similar participation in shaping the character and sometimes unhappiness is better teacher than happiness. Studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare say that, in most cases, they found that the trouble has taught more than happiness, taught that poverty rather than wealth and that the setbacks were more than the praise which inflamed his inner fire.
