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Swami Vivekananda said that Karma yoga is the best for this age.

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 5/Sayings and Utterances

  1. Jnâna, Bhakti, Yoga and Karma—these are the four paths which lead to salvation. One must follow the path for which one is best suited; but in this age special stress should be laid on Karma-Yoga

But in this Kaliyug, bhakti yoga is the best. So, which age (yug) did Swami Vivekananda consider this age to be?

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    @ChinmaySarupria The question is not what age did Swami Vivekananda lived in, the question is which age did Swamiji himself consider to be living in? Are there any references of him saying what is the current yuga? – user5155835 Feb 15 '16 at 06:40
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    @ChinmaySarupria, that is a common misconception. Those years are not 'human' years, there are 'deva' years.
    1 deva day = 6 months (uttarayana), 1 deva night = 6 months (dakshinayana), so 1 deva day+night = 1 human year, so 1200 deva years = 1200 * 360 = 4,32,000 years. See reference     – ram Feb 15 '16 at 07:02
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    That in Kaliyuga Bhakti marga is the best is mentioned in which text?We are of course living in the Kali age.Then how could Swamiji thought otherwise? – Rickross Feb 15 '16 at 07:17
  • Do people living in the Kali yuga have much Bhakti to follow the Bhakti marga?Bhakti arises from righteousness or by following Dhrama.But in this age Dharma exists almost no where.Then isn't Karma Yoga the best suited path for Kali age? – Rickross Feb 15 '16 at 07:21
  • @Rickross Bhakti yoga is the best in Kali yuga. You'll find this in many scriptures. For example: https://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/12/3/51 – user5155835 Feb 15 '16 at 08:09
  • @ChinmaySarupria That,s a nice and best known way of ending an conversation.Btw,do you know that human intelligence is decreasing with time? – Rickross Feb 15 '16 at 08:14
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    @Rickross Actually it is increasing with time, the proof is various inventions after 1699. – Pinakin Feb 15 '16 at 08:19
  • @ChinmaySarupria The inventions that you are referring to have more to do with perseverance and penance and very less to do with "intelligence".That is why so called modern science has always found itself against the order of Mother Nature.That, human "intelligence" is decreasing with time is also testified quite well by the fact that we are losing more and more affinity towards God. – Rickross Feb 15 '16 at 09:03
  • @user5155835 Who said bhakti Yoga is better? Bhakti Yoga is easiest yoga one can do in this Kali Age. But Karma Yoga is bit difficult and results will be great if you follow Karma Yoga. That's what Swami Vievekanada mean. See this book of Swami Sivanada on Karma Yoga. ISKCON gives emphasis on Bhakti Yoga not all. – The Destroyer Feb 15 '16 at 09:52
  • @Rickross Where was the result of perseverance and penance 1000 or 2000 years ago? Why didn't we discussed like this in our previous lives at the time of Chandragupta Maurya? Facts cannot be denied. – Pinakin Feb 15 '16 at 11:16
  • @AnilKumar I think Bhakti Yoga is easy in every age be it Satya, Treta, Dwapar or Kali. In other paths, the start is hard but then it gets easier and easier whereas in Bhakti Yoga, it is same at all points. Intense devotion towards God is all that matters. – Pinakin Feb 15 '16 at 11:18
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    @ChinmaySarupria In Kali Yuga, that's not easy, when compared with other Yugas. Also, in Satya Yuga, Bhakti alone may not help a devotee to reach Lord (Moksha). In Kali yuga, that is current age, Bhakti Yoga is easiest of all yogas. – The Destroyer Feb 15 '16 at 12:36
  • @ChinmaySarupria All i have to say is that if yours "human intelligence is increasing with time" theory is true then God wouldn't have chosen the beginning of each creation to reveal the highest truths in the form Vedas.Instead he would have done the revelation at the fag end of each age because ,then, according to your theory, human beings would be the most intelligent and hence most proficient to understand it's true purport.That we are moving away from God with the advancement of time is a testimony of what i'm saying with God being the source of all Intelligence. – Rickross Feb 15 '16 at 17:40
  • @Rickross Everything in universe works in cycles, intelligence decreases and then increases and so on. How will Satya Yuga begin if intelligence is low? If you believe in the traditional theory, then you also believe that intelligence will suddenly change with the direct transition from Kali to Satya. – Pinakin Feb 16 '16 at 03:28

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Vivekananda considered it to be the Kali Yuga. But Vivekananda also points out that 'yugas' are only spoken of in the Smritis, they are not spoken of in any of the Srutis. So, what 'yuga' you consider it to be, whether or not there are yugas, what the exact date is, is not important.

It is important to understand what Vivekananda is talking about in the quote you gave. In it, Vivekananda says that "special stress" should be made on Karma - he does not say that it is THE way for the Kali yuga.

Vivekananda says (Complete Works V3, pp 221-2; and here under the heading Lectures from Colombo to Almora, sub-heading My Plan of Campaign) http://cwsv.belurmath.org/volume_3/vol_3_frame.htm

So every improvement in India requires first of all an upheaval in religion. Before flooding India with socialistic or political ideas, first deluge the land with spiritual ideas. The first work that demands our attention is that the most wonderful truths confined in our Upanishads, in our scriptures, in our Purânas must be brought out from the books, brought out from the monasteries, brought out from the forests, brought out from the possession of selected bodies of people, and scattered broadcast all over the land, so that these truths may run like fire all over the country from north to south and east to west, from the Himalayas to Comorin, from Sindh to the Brahmaputra. Everyone must know of them, because it is said, "This has first to be heard, then thought upon, and then meditated upon." Let the people hear first, and whoever helps in making the people hear about the great truths in their own scriptures cannot make for himself a better Karma today. Says our Vyasa, "In the Kali Yuga there is one Karma left. Sacrifices and tremendous Tapasyâs are of no avail now. Of Karma one remains, and that is the Karma of giving." And of these gifts, the gift of spirituality and spiritual knowledge is the highest; the next gift is the gift of secular knowledge; the next is the gift of life; and the fourth is the gift of food. Look at this wonderfully charitable race; look at the amount of gifts that are made in this poor, poor country; look at the hospitality where a man can travel from the north to the south, having the best in the land, being treated always by everyone as if he were a friend, and where no beggar starves so long as there is a piece of bread anywhere!

In this land of charity, let us take up the energy of the first charity, the diffusion of spiritual knowledge. And that diffusion should not be confined within the bounds of India; it must go out all over the world. This has been the custom. Those that tell you that Indian thought never went outside of India, those that tell you that I am the first Sannyasin who went to foreign lands to preach, do not know the history of their own race. Again and again this phenomenon has happened. Whenever the world has required it, this perennial flood of spirituality has overflowed and deluged the world. Gifts of political knowledge can be made with the blast of trumpets and the march of cohorts. Gifts of secular knowledge and social knowledge can be made with fire and sword. But spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses. This has been the gift of India to the world again and again.

So what he means by special stress is that Karma, in the form of giving should be done. What he is saying is that no matter what you practice--whether its bhakti, raja, jnana, or more ritualistic karma, or a combination of all or some of them--that you should also be practicing the karma of giving, especially the karma of diffusion of spiritual knowledge. Lord Krishna says (Gita, XVIII. 68-69):

He who, with supreme devotion to Me, teaches this deeply profound philosophy to those who are devoted to Me shall without question come to Me.

There is none among men who can do anything more pleasing to Me than he, nor shall there be another on earth dearer to Me than he.

Follow Bhakti (Vivekananda's guru, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said that Bhakti was the easiest path in the Kali Yuga), but also pay heed to giving.

Swami Vishwananda
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    thank you for the beautiful answer Swamiji. This is one of the quotes from Swami Vivekananda on the Yuga system:http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_5/questions_and_answers/selections_from_the_math_diary.htm

    " Q. — Is the division of time into four Yugas astronomical or arbitrary calculation?

    A. — There is no mention of such divisions in the Vedas. They are arbitrary assumptions of Paurânika times."

     – Sai Feb 16 '16 at 17:35