Question concerning Vedic Ideas

[Guest guest]

Hi and there and thank you for letting me be a part of

this great group,

 

I read some information about Karma Yoga, but the part

that interested me the most was the information that

there were certain karmas and yogas that could be

performed to acheive certain aims. I was wondering if

someone could elaborate on this for me or point me in

the direction of the texts that describe this.

 

The information I read talked about karmas for health,

prosperity and other things. I am interesting in the

karmas that would need to be performed to heal certain

afflications. Most importantly and firstly I would be

interested in what amount of karmas one would have to

perform to clear up ones mind and perhaps limit

problematic thinking.

 

As I understand it this sort of stuff varies slightly

from performing certain yoga sets and although I am

interested in that too this information sparked me off

on a train of thought.

 

Perhaps someone could point me in the direction of the

texts that describe these things.

 

Yours gratefully, an inquisitive and always learning

and eager student,

 

Steven McLachlan

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Steven:

 

Great question!

There's not much I have been able to find on Karma yoga.

All I know I learned from my various teachers on this topic.

Agia Akal in Toronto always tells me to involve my students in karma yoga

around my studio.

 

One day he asked me to do some karma yoga. I was having stomach problems.

I thought it was a response to a fear that came up during my course with

him. He told me it had to do with not completing my karma yoga.

 

And perhaps both are true.

 

There's energy involved when you start doing something consciously. Karma

yoga needs to be done with consciousness, noticing the details of what

comes through you as you do it and finding the discipline inside to do a

complete job, and noticing how it affects you. It is a meditation in

humility and it alchemical because as you work on something external of

you with awareness, you transform internally working through the blocks

that come up or the emotions that come up as you do the karma yoga.

 

How long depends on you. Same as yoga and meditation. It depends on your

starting point and how much you want to achieve... and how hard it is to

let go of your desire to achieve anything and then you may really get what

karma yoga is in that moment for you! @:-)

 

That's what I know!

Blessings, Awtar