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ESSENCE OF YOGA

Chapter 2: Karma Yoga

1.Karma Yoga

 

 

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Haft-hearted service is no service at all. Give your whole heart, mind and soul when you serve. This is very important when you practise Karma Yoga.

Some people have their body in one place, mind in another place, and soul in another place. That is the reason why they do not realise any substantial progress in the path.

Forget not the goal of life amidst selfish activities. The goal of life is Self-realisation. Are you attempting to reach the end and aim of life? Are you doing Japa, Pranayama and Meditation? Have you kept up the ideal before the mind's eye? That day in which you do not practise any spiritual Sadhana is wasted. Give the mind to God and the hands to work. You will have to analyse and scrutinise your motives. It is the selfish motive and not the work itself that binds a man to Samsara. Prepare the mind for Karma Yoga. Mere selfish work cannot be taken as Yogic activity. The mind is so framed that it always expects something for a small piece of work. When you smile you expect a return of smile from your friend. When you raise your hand in salutation, you will expect a salute from other people. Even when you give a cup of water to another man, you expect him to be grateful to you. When such is the case, how can you perform Nishkama Karma Yoga?

Life is very precious. Live in the spirit of the Gita teaching and work without expectation of fruits and egoism. Think you are Nimitta in the hands of Lord Narayana. If you work with this mental attitude you will become a Yogi soon. Work never degrades a man. Unselfish work is Puja of Narayana. Work is worship. All works are sacred. There is no menial work from the highest view-point of the absolute, from the view-point of Karma Yoga. Even scavenging when done with the right spirit and mental attitude is Yogic action. Even a scavenger can realise God in his own station of life by service. The famous butcher-Sadhaka of the Mahahharata realised God in his meat-shop (through serving his parents). You have got inside all materials for wisdom. There is a vast magazine of power and knowledge within you. It wants kindling. Now wake up, O Saumya!

When you work disinterestedly without any agency and when you surrender the works and fruits as Ishvararpana, all Karmas are transformed into Yogic Kriyas. Walking, eating, sleeping, answering the calls of nature, talking, etc., become offering unto the Lord. Every bit of work is Yoga for you. Think that Lord Siva is working through your hands, and is eating through your mouth. Think that your hands are the hands of Lord Siva. In the beginning some of your actions may be selfish and some may be unselfish. In the long run you can do all actions in an unselfish manner. Scrutinise your motives always. This is the key-note for Nishkama Karma Yoga. Every act can be spiritualised when the motive becomes pure. Work is meditation. Serve everyone with intense love, without any idea of agency, without expectation of fruits or reward. If you adopt the path of Jnana, feel you are a silent Sakshi and the Prakriti does everything.

It is selfishness that has deplorably contracted your heart. Selfishness is the bane of society. Selfishness clouds understanding. Selfishness is petty-mindedness. Bhoga increases selfishness and selfish Pravritti. It is the root-cause for human sufferings. Real spiritual progress starts in selfless service. Serve the Sadhus, Sannyasins, Bhaktas and poor and sick persons with Bhava, Prema and Bhakti. The Lord is seated in the hearts of all.

The spirit of service must deeply enter into your very bones, cells, tissues, nerves, etc. The reward is invaluable. Practise and feel the cosmic expansion and infinite Ananda. Tall tales and idle gossip will not do, my dear friends! Evince intense zeal and enthusiasm in work. Be fiery in the spirit of service.

Have Nishtha with God and Cheshta with hands like the Bahurupi who has the Nishtha of a male and the Cheshta of a female. You will be able to do two things at a time by practice. The manual work will become automatic, mechanical or intuitive. You will have two minds. A portion of the mind will be at work; three quarters of the mind will be in the service of the Lord, in meditation, in Japa. Karma Yoga is generally combined with Bhakti Yoga. A Karma Yogin offers to the Lord as an oblation whatever he does through the Karma-Indriyas. This is Ishvara Pranidhana.

 

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  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 1.Karma Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 1.Yoga, Haft-hearted service is no service at all. Give your whole heart, mind and soul when you serve. This is very important when you practise Karma Yoga. Some people have their body in one place, mind in another place, and soul in another place. That is the reason why they do not realise any substantial progress in the path at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 2.Training of Karma Yoga
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 2.Training of Karma Yoga, A raw untrained aspirant feels, 'My preceptor is treating me like a servant or a peon. He is using me for petty jobs.' He who has understood the right significance of Karma Yoga will take every work as Yogic activity or worship of the Lord. There is no menial work in his vision. Every work is Puja of Narayana. In the light of Karma Yoga all actions are sacred. That aspirant who always takes immense delight in doing works which are considered by the worldly man as menial services, and who always does willingly such acts only will become a dynamic Yogi. He will be absolutely free from conceit and egoism. He will have no downfall. The canker of pride cannot touch him at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 3.Attain Nirlipta State
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 3.Attain Nirlipta State, Lord Krishna says in His Gita: 'Tasmat Sarveshu kaleshu mam anusmara yudhya cha'. 'Therefore at all times think of Me and fight.' Give the mind to God and the hand to work. The typist works at the machine and talks with his friends. The player on the harmonium plays on the organ and talks and jokes with his friends at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 4.What is Karma
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 4.What is Karma, Karma means work or action. According to Jaimini, rituals like Agnihotra, Yajnas, etc., are termed Karmas. There is a hidden power in Karma termed Adrishta which brings in fruits of Karmas for the individual. Karma is all for Jaimini at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 5.How to Find Right or Wrong Action
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 5.How to Find Right or Wrong Action, Have right thinking. Use your reason and commonsense. Follow the injunctions of the Sastras. Consult the code of Manu or Yajnavalkya Smriti whenever you have doubts. You will be able to find out whether you are doing right or wrong action. If you say, 'Sastras are countless. They are like ocean. I can hardly understand the truths that are inculcated. I cannot fathom and gauge their depths. There are contradictions. I am puzzled and bewildered.' at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 6.Inner Voice
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 6.Inner Voice, When the diverse, confining sheaths of the Atma have been dissolved by Sadhana, when the different Vrittis of the mind have been controlled by mental drill or gymnastic, when the conscious mind is not active, you enter the realm of spirit life, the super-conscious mind where Buddhi and pure reason and intuition, the faculty of direct cognition of Truth, manifest at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 7.Prayer for a Karma Yogin
    Sri Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga Chapter 2: Karma Yoga, 7.Prayer for a Karma Yogin, Atma tvam girija mitih sahacharah pranah sareeram griham. Puja te vishyopabhogarachana nidra samadhisthitih, Sancharah padoyoh pradakshinavidhih stotrani sarva giro; Yadyat karma karomi tat tad akhilam sambhotavaradhanam at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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