Karma, Bhakti, and Jnana all meet in self-abnegation; and that is what the great preachers of ancient times meant, when they taught that God is not the world. There is one thing which is the world and another which is God; and this distinction is very true.
What they mean by world is selfishness. Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish--and then such a person can be said to be in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world--yet, if this person is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.
Class on Karma Yoga. New York, January 3, 1896. Complete Works, 1.87.
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