'karma' to karma yoga ' ?

[Guest guest]

What transforms 'karma' to karma yoga ' ?

 

1)Choose the right area of work - swadharma;

2)Dedicate your work to Lord;

3)Be detached (no dependence on external factors);

4)Maintain equanimity in results favourable and

unfavourable; and

5)Stand guard against the onrush of desire and anger

that sense objects arouse

 

KARMA can be transformed into KARMA-YOGA, by the

technique of renouncing one's sense of agency in one's

actions. This is no strange theory; nor is it a unique

doctrine. At every moment, all round the world, we see

this enacted in a thousand ways. Another surgeon is

called in to operate upon a doctor's own wife or

child; his attachment to his own wife makes him

incapacitated to perform the operation on her,

although the same doctor, on the same day, may perform

the same operation on another patient with whom he has

no self-deluding attachment. When an ambassador from

one country to another, even if he is shy, retreating

coward in the presence of mighty monarchs in foreign

lands, reaches the court of another nation or country

as a representative of his national government, he

comes to outshine himself.

 

If man were to act as a representative of the Infinite

and the Eternal, he shall discover in himself mightier

possibilities and greater effectiveness which are well

wasted and squandered today by his misconception of a

finite ego in himself.

 

Swadharma & Para-dharma

 

Swadharma is not the caste duties which accrue to an

individual due to the sheer accident of birth. In its

right import here, it should be only the type of

Vasanas that one discovers in oneself in one's own

mind. To act according to one's own taste, inborn and

natural, is the only known method of living in peace

and joy, in success and satisfaction. To act against

the grain of one's own Vasanas would be acting in

terms of Para-dharma; and how much this is fraught

with fear is very well known.

 

courtsies:

1)http://www.chinmaya-chicago.com/gita/topic_9.htm#9.2

2)http://www.chinmaya-chicago.com/gita/define.htm#swadharma

 

 

5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to

http://help./l/in//mail/mail/tools/tools-08.html