In the winter of 1895, in a set of rented rooms at 228 West 39th Street in New York, a Bengali monk in ochre robes sat and spoke about work. The room was small and the city outside was loud with the new century coming. A young Englishman named J. J. Goodwin, a professional stenographer, took down every word; by February of 1896 the eight talks were a book, and the book was called Karma-Yoga. Swami Vivekananda was thirty-three. What he told that New York audience was not what they expected from an Indian holy man. He did not tell them to withdraw from the world. He told them that the world — the office, the kitchen, the street, the…