Guest guest Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 Karma yoga states that one should do one's karma without expecting results or without expectation of reward and it entails selfless service - service for others. However, wouldn't it degenerate into a scenario where the ones who are being served by Karmayogis would stop doing all productive work and start depending only on the productive abilities of the Karmayogis? If it is help and sustenance for the served, isn't it exploitation for the servants? Ultimately, if everybody starts thinking that his interests will be served by others, all work would stop, people would only be thinking of how to cheat his neighbour into serving his interests and so on and so forth. How is this scenario to be averted? Is that also stated in the Karmayoga scriptures? Sign up for SBC Dial - First Month Free http://sbc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 Service to others does not mean that you would work to support lazy people. The best service you could do for a lazy peorson might be to explain to them why they need to go to work and take care of themselves. I think you are asking a good quesiton, and I think that the answer is that an important part of service is to use our intelligence to do service that is really helpful and avoid service that is harmful, such as supporting the lazy and selfish. Ramakrishna, Tadatmya Vaishnav <tavaishnav> wrote: > Karma yoga states that one should do one's karma > without expecting results or without expectation of > reward and it entails selfless service - service for > others. > However, wouldn't it degenerate into a scenario > where the ones who are being served by Karmayogis > would stop doing all productive work and start > depending only on the productive abilities of the > Karmayogis? If it is help and sustenance for the > served, isn't it exploitation for the servants? > Ultimately, if everybody starts thinking that his > interests will be served by others, all work would > stop, people would only be thinking of how to cheat > his neighbour into serving his interests and so on > and so forth. How is this scenario to be averted? Is > that also stated in the Karmayoga scriptures? > > > > Sign up for SBC Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2002 Report Share Posted July 8, 2002 Namaste, The answer to this doubt is given in Gita 3:25 and 26. sak{}taaH karmaNyavidvaa.nso yathaa kurvanti bhaarata . kuryaadvidvaa.nstathaa.asak{}tashchikiirshhurlokasa.ngraham.h .. 3\.25.. na buddhibheda.n janayedaGYaanaa.n karmasaN^ginaam.h . joshhayetsarvakarmaaNi vidvaanyuk{}taH samaacharan.h .. 3\.26.. [Hope every reader has a translation of the Gita to refer to!!] Regards, Sunder Ramakrishna, " tomcarr1 " <tomcarr@m...> wrote: > Service to others does not mean that you would work to support lazy > people. The best service you could do for a lazy peorson might be to > explain to them why they need to go to work and take care of > themselves. > > I think you are asking a good quesiton, and I think that the answer > is that an important part of service is to use our intelligence to do > service that is really helpful and avoid service that is harmful, > such as supporting the lazy and selfish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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