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chapter 1KARMA IN ITS EFFECT ONCHARACTER 1 The word karma is derived form the sanskrit kri, to do;all action iskarma.Technically, this word also means the effects of actions. In connection with metaphysics, it sometimes means the effect, of which our past actions were the causes. But karma-yoga we have simply to do with the word karma as meaning work. The goal of mankind is knowledge; that is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure