At least, it did in 1895 when Swami Vivekananda when Brain Pickings says:
The renowned Indian Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda, then in his early thirties, traveled to New York, rented a couple of rooms at 228 West 39th Street, where he spent a month holding a series of public lectures on the notion of karma — translated as work — and various other aspects of mental discipline. They attracted a number of famous followers, including groundbreaking inventor Nikola Tesla and pioneering psychologist and philosopher William James.
Oh, you are smart: you’ve seen that the title of that article includes 1896 when the quote says 1895. Very good, very impressive. But it’s okay: the article date refers to when these lectures were published as a book. You’ll never guess when. You’ll definitely not guess the title: it’s Karma Yoga (UK edition, US edition)
As ever with Popova’s work on Brainpickings, the article is about a book yet contains so much that it is an absorbing read by itself. Read this and you don’t have to read the book. Though equally, read this and you’ll want to.
Among the most timeless of them is one titled “The Secret of Work,” in which Vivekananda examines with ever-timely poignancy the ways in which we mistake the doing for the being and worship the perspirations of our productivity over the aspirations of our soul.