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Yoga Practice - Karma Yoga - 2

The Swasth Institute · 1:10:53

In this practice

Key teachings

  • Karma Yoga: performing actions with detachment and objectivity (unattached action)
  • Dharma: righteous conduct, doing good to others, renunciation, and service
  • Yama and Niyama: ethical foundations of yoga, including non-violence, truthfulness, purity, and contentment
  • The influence of the three Gunas (Tamas, Rajas, Sattva) on human personality and action

Ideal for

  • Individuals interested in the philosophical and ethical foundations of yoga
  • Practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of Karma Yoga principles
  • Anyone looking for spiritual guidance on ethical living and action in daily life

Lesson

Steps

  • Practicing actions with complete objectivity and detachment
  • Cultivating compassion, charity, and self-restraint in daily life
  • Adhering to ethical guidelines such as non-stealing and non-possessiveness (Yama)
  • Engaging in self-introspection and self-study (Swadhyaya)

Benefits

  • Moving from self-centered to less self-centered activity
  • Transforming ordinary actions into 'Saatvic' (virtuous and pure) actions
  • Developing control over senses and inner impulses
  • Achieving a state of inner peace and transcendence through right action

Transcript

[Music] [Laughter] [Music] welcome back to the session on karma yoga in our first session we saw that when we get into conflicts when you have to face extremely demanding situations when we get challenges in our lives we want to run away the first advice from Shri Krishna the Lord Yoga is that you should not run away from action no doubt our ultimate goal is to reach that silence that nice karma city the state of transcendence and that infinite pure silence but you cannot read that silence you cannot read that nice car Mississippi the state of non action by relinquishing action way because we are all made out of the three gunas and even if you want to remain quiet we can keep white our bonus will prepare us if you are Thomas predominant laziness lethargy drowsiness sleepiness then he'll just rip off your mind will not become quiet if on the other hand if you are extremely dynamic rajasic character then you can sit right inside there's so much of rush come on get out run if you are very saatvik you know his wonderful scheming to the spirit of good action everywhere that'll bring ideas social orders by systematic planning and all that planning therefore krishna says not even a single moment he can remain quiet because anima Pidgeotto the economic growth therefore what is to be done don't try to control your car mainly us and non India's and try to remain quiet on the other hand control the indriyas through the mind and start performing actions restore the responsive but start performing the action in a very special way and that special way is karmayoga what that special way us at the house ah hah machete unattached action performing or actions with complete objectivity as if we're a witness with detachment well it is very easily said than done is it ever possible I wish to be done Hermia versus Allwright start performing all actions that's duty carmine you are harassed a and then well performing your duty also see that your action is good for the society good for the people and that's called Suffolk action doing good others is the key feature of karmayoga when performing our duties do the right action doing good to others is featured by renunciation and service so we can under said this for the clean ideals of India and he said in the process of rebuilding this nation the country will not be rebuilt if we build skyscrapers industries or make the country very rich and affluent on the other hand we have to bring in this dimension of renunciation service the thin ideals of birth and that is feature by compassion they are sharing Donna control over the senses dama and that's how we can move from selfishness to lesser selfishness or correct as enlightened selfishness this is how there is a move from the self-centred activity towards a non self-centred activity or less self-centered activity and these are the Southwick actions even paternity gives Yama and niyama are the foundations for yama niyama asana pranayama pratyahara a set of do's and set of don'ts llaman NEMA 5 yo mas 5 near Mars make it 10 and look at the coincidence of the tenement commandments of Christ and the ten dimensions of Dharma prescribed by Manu in our country all 10 10 10 that's called as Dharma all this time can be condensed into only 3 charity compassion and self-restrained to illustrate this point there's a very interesting episode once the gods and goddesses the human beings and the demons all go to the big Lord Vishnu please give us some good advice and he looks at the demons says they're for you human beings now for you David asked da for you everybody understands and comes back what did the devil sender stand the rakshasas as we are we have become extremely cruel cut beat terrorized and aggrandize services with our ego and exploit others so the great Lord has told be compassionate they are what about the gods and goddesses you people are all the time in fiestar a super star culture comforts damsels the comedy room and so on so I says please don't be a slave we were sense organs control and the senses Dhamma what about for the human beings they have become extremely selfish you don't care for this just what we see nowadays there even big skyscraper buildings we live in apartments we don't know who lives next apartment much less we know only with this apartment complex and we don't care if somebody comes and ask a they have some mukherjee by your side I don't know what candy is it and that is selfishness into which you have entered so the Great Lord has said please don't become so selfish bring in a little dimension of selflessness start sharing your position Donna so the three does they are dama Donna they are is compassion Donna is charity Dhamma is self-restraint control over the inner senses these three form the foundation of all the ten Suffolk actions that is called the Dharma and some vehicleular said all these three things can be further reduced into only two renunciation and service yoga and sehwa and by so doing we are converting actions into Southwick actions whatever by which we convert a very action into a saatvik action it is incorporating these values this what all religions professed this form the foundation of all religions the basic aspects of all religions look at them the ten commandments of Christ the ten dimensions of Dharma of Manu the ten aspects of Yama and niyama prescribed by personally at the basis and foundation of yoga what are they Yama's a set of don'ts I'm Sofia stay of remote area paragraph inside non-violence secures no untruth Ostia is non stealing remote area is no immoral sex aparigraha non possessiveness then what are the prescriptions the Nima's shoujo Santosh a tapas Rajeshwari LaDonna shota his purity santosha his happiness and satisfaction tapas swadhyaya self-introspection self-study and eshwara pradana the surrender to the ultimate Lord reality and further he says we had follow these ten norms set of five don'ts and fire dues and one of the wonderful features of yoga is maintained that santosha that happiness happiness all the time whatever work we are doing and that is the biggest of yoga spoiler in the face relaxation in the body can we maintain that often we blame others we do not look at what we have what problems we have self introspection is lacking so he says swaha so adaiah means letter look at our source whether there is the problems inside what are the imbalances inside and before we blame the world and outside that is correct of ourselves these are the ten dimensions and they call all this at the basis of religions but this supply aspect called as Dharma preacher by donna daya and dhamma sharing compassion in the stain of the external organs cannot be forced into the society it has to be evolved and that's what the religious did mano also prescribed the ten dimensions of dharma thirty yama yamaha esteem Xiao Chun indriyani graha he with the Satyam accrue ha Dasha come thermal action ohm he said these are the ten dimensions of Dharma and this became the prevalent dimensions of Dharma followed in India for many many centuries through T steadfastness Shama is forgiving demise control over the external organs ostium is non-stealing shouta miss purity Hindry are agraja control over the senses the proper understanding discrimination power with the good wisdom Satyam integrity and honesty Akrid aha non anger Dasha come the 10 lecture on the dimensions of Dharma so look at the coincidence all the 10 so we have the three personality traits tamas rajas and sat wha this forum our entire personality every one of us is a combination of these three but in some registry predominant in some thus at Huawei predominate then we are called as Rajasekhar softly not that all hundred percent is rajasic not all hundred percent is sattvic promising also cannot be hundred percent and these three personality traits show up in all or not only actions but in the type of food that we like the type of body that we possess the type of mind that we have that percolates into all aspects of our existence and these things have been defined in great depth in the bhagavad-gita what is a type of food that a thomassie person likes yatta yamen gather some booty Purushotham old putrefied smelling people cannot eat fresh they're the type of Thomas a food what about rod seafood lot of the spices and vooshnod diction are rooks navidad in ahah love heat some people would like to have coffee but the coffee should be steaming hot you would they're little less then they won't enjoy they cannot hold it with a hand you have to take a kerchief and then make it not the same but IDs and varieties of spices he'd had in Mexico and Indian and the Punjabi varieties and varieties and it was strong pungent full of sullen salon thing rather sick food so the food also is part of the personality trait similarly the body what type of body we have the body which is very heavy doesn't want to move often a base that is otama sick classic body very thin and all the time and speed the muscles are stiff tight the face is tightened grim subtle body highly relaxed nice man in the face and often full of lightness and bliss so the three personality traits the three gunas have been knit into all our actions every food every body muscles in our mind as well now we had to understand the dimension of the rajasic action and the sattvic action more vividly the two terms are used in yoga in Karma Yoga is Nia and her MA Nia is at the level of given take it is in the rajasic dimension I do so much of work for you you give me so much of salary and I give you a nice party today I expect that you give me a party back I spend a lot of money for you but so the elections are coming anywhere that I do any offering I do always expectation of a return lots of money I gave money and charity but I prescribed a condition can you put my name of the building that you built oh this come under the knee oil level there's always the sense of give-and-take and this form the foundation of jurisprudence that forums the dimension of the law that the region approaches nya and this can be forced and he is being forced into the society if you go against the law if you go against the nya you are perishable you are the right royal way if you go the corrupt way yes you are perishable the pomace ik dimension has to be shattered and the ayah has to be established in the society all the courts everything and the book of jurisprudence and the whole stream of law has been set press tablished the largest in the society to shatter the thomas in the society because we as tomecek people often would like to skip often would like to do a shoddy job often we'd like to do yes care Pixum and that's what has to be taken with an iron hand that is the code the law but the Dharma featured by Donna daya and Dhamma and the region of sapa now the region of sattva cannot be forced into the society by the courts or by the book of jurisprudence because it is much higher he should evolve warrant early the people should take to the Dharma voluntarily let me give you a simple example to illustrate the difference between EAJA and Dharma there is a bank manager a very efficient person and he does his job excellently well and he's earning about 50,000 rupees a month he has got his wife and two children so I've made a good house every month he knows what is the total expense for the house it's about eight thousand rupees so he brings 10,000 rupees give them out to his wife and says please manage and the house goes on smoothly and he's earning his living through right royal means he has no cheating he's no cup practices he collects all the money at the end of the year he has accumulated almost 5 lakhs of rupees now he takes off his early 21 days he goes into a five-star hotel alone and spends all the money that he has gained in enjoyment at a five-star hotel and drinking and making himself merry using all the sense pleasures and he is in New Haven he cannot be punished by any sense of law that is the reason of prejudice whereas he is not at her Milan because he has no control and his senses he has become a slaves to his senses Dhamma is not there and magnanimity is not there service is not there love and compassion is not there charity is not there therefore he doesn't come to the realms of Supper but he's in the region of Rajas that is the difference between Naya and Dharma that we have to clearly understand so karma yoga takes us from Nia to the derma level so to be lawful and to follow the justice to have integrity in business to have selfishness is fill or and the region of Rajas it is in the realm of Naya and that is the one that is always praised in the society and you are able to achieve great things even with this rajasic dimension from there you have to go to the next level that superb reduced selfishness or enlightened selfishness why why should one move from bridges to supply we saw already Krishna gives the example saying that if you work the rajasic wave you are bound to get into tensions and stresses creativa Hoonah are some rajasam buddha algorithm said and therefore you have to go doing the better way of action therefore he says come my karma doing actions in the rajasic way all the time being motivated with name fame money he is but inferior to the Buddha yoga that is the sattvic action and beyond therefore he says take refuge in karma yoga that is intelligent action a better way of working and that is the one that gives us greater dividends well is it not only in utopia is there a proof are there examples in which people have been able to use Karma Yoga in modern times yes look at the whole management scenario the management started with the management by objectives called my own in which objective or the result the endpoint is most important and not the process so what do people do all right I want to produce 10,000 cars I called for tender and I know which is the best price I will award the contract to that person I don't care how he produces but I want only the result if he is able to deliver the goods at the end of the year 10,000 cars and at the quality that has been prescribed well I give now the second set of contract to him if he doesn't give us that result probably I will change the contractor management by objective that have been in work for centuries and the whole business everything is going round mu but then the new methodology came up in Japan the total quality management the famous TQM in which process is emphasized and not just the result result will come automatically result will come as a corollary to the theorem the theorem with a duty sense what do they do here they also want to achieve the result what result should come with a by-product if the Americans since sell the car at forty thousand dollars with one-year warranty the Japanese business companies automobile industries they said we are going to manufacture equal quality cars and we'll sell it for thirty thousand dollars and we'll give two years warranty and how could they achieve this by continuously improvising the process of manufacture emphasis on the quality of the product quality of each and every part of the automobile should go on improvising improvising and all the people in the industry who were working were made to participate creatively to provide the quality Kaizen continuous improvement and regular checking of each and every process and see that the process Brill is the right effect at the end they were able to achieve and we know how a small island like Japan became the biggest of the economic giant winning over biggest of the automobile industries in the United States how did that happened they followed a process oriented management system in comparison to the result oriented system therefore it is very well proven that karmayoga or the work done with emphasis and the process will be far superior than the work done with only the result orientation and the next step from there we are going into the holistic systems management in which the Duty sense press you heard less this has been emphasized not only the quality of the products are important but the quality of life also is important what is happening to many of the Japanese industries where they adopted TQM and won over the whole world and became economic Giants most of the people though they get lot of creative satisfaction they are getting stuck with lot of tensions and stresses and even there there is the element of different diseases coming up and therefore you have to go here what is the quality of life quality of life is featured by better health harmony love and bliss how can we achieve that Karma Yoga says perform your duty effortlessly even while performing your duty it may happen that you may get tensed up because of you were tremendous attachment to the duty itself you become a perfectionist and your attachment to the perfectionist attitude itself because problem therefore you must learn how to perform all over actions in a very sensitive way with all the responsibilities almost bordering a perfection yet it complete mental equipoise with effortlessness and effortlessness features Karma Yoga therefore we must learn how to move from Thomas colleges and from register Sat wah for more efficiency greater ease and effortlessness and from sattva-guna theater city we have to transcend even the gunas rate the highest states of hysterics and that's what we had Lou in all our actions how can we do that what are the techniques the techniques of growth in karma yoga prescribes that use regice to overcome the tamas rajas his brilliance sharpness intelligence dynamism with full of desires and selfishness infused desires infuse selfishness in the people for extremely Intimus steep in stagnation lethargy drowsiness and sleepiness show them the wonderful attractive features and it will bring them towards the rajasic state I remember some of the students who were extremely dull had gone to a United States they taken almost three attempts to pass a graduation but in the event they were so attracted to all the facilities that are able to get if the pass and they started working hard and not only working hard for the study working hard to earn their living they go there and wash the dishes in a restaurant and make their living at the same time steady on this side amazing the people not only passed in the first attempt but they made laurels how did that happen that is a fraction of bridges that the power of sense attractions the incentives the desires and selfishness but then once you come to the Rajas krishna says control their urges channelized arises by promoting SAP wha all right you earn lot of money but start sharing your wealth with your family with your relatives and friends and for the nation and the society that the Sathya dimension and we had even purify some go beyond the gunas and learn to work in tune with the cosmic order the rota at the highest stage of growth in karmayoga therefore karmayoga starts off generally with comma karma desire oriented action result oriented action determined attachment to get more name more fame or money I want to become a millionaire I want to become a billionaire has been the emphasis and from there go to the next level for four more actions in the form of a duty duty boy entered society from there it's not doing the duty for the good of others for building the nation for building the society and in our country therefore duties were prescribed everyone it became a kurta bearishness ahmad shah and how to bring about this in a very large way to everyone in the society our ancient seers thousands of years back had evolved a technology called Edna and this Sedna converted every normal action into yo Kharma yoga and what did this get na way of action that is the third dimension by which we can convert karma into Karma Yoga I call this as the technology of the Vedic age everybody was prescribed Ignace and ignis can be created to achieve any result anything that you want today in modern times we have different industries industry to manufacture they spend industry to manufacture this wristwatch industries and industries to produce each and everything that we want the computers and televisions the VCRs and whatnot and what do we do here we do that search and bring about a blueprint and we install the machines and the people have to just follow the checklist they have to do all the actions according to the prescription a set of do's and don'ts have been prescribed when you go there you must go on turning your nuts and the walls and the bodybuilding may not have of an industry everybody does the things according to their do's and don'ts and nobody's asked allo to ask why should I do that if somebody asks alright go there to the research section and they will give you all the answers here only how to do all the actions meticulously with proper monitoring proper statistical control and so at the end you get the desired result your beautiful car comes out of every industry very nice motorcycles come out of it and go to the industry that we have in the same way thousands of years back in our country in India there were prescription of ignores the Ignace bribed the physical level the place where the ignores had to be done you cannot do the ignores wherever you want and the time of the Ignis had to be prescribed and the shape of the eggnog Kunda the where the fire has to be invoked and placing of the persons in the specific places everything is prescribed complete checklist what is to be done what is not to be done just like in a modern industrial assembly section and there are great seers there are great yoga masters who used to build up different ignores depending on the need they will ask the person who is going to perform the Aetna what do you want out of this Cigna the person will say sir I do not have a son I want to yet not to get a son to throw combination yoga you do I don't have money sir I want to get a lot of money and wealth though I making our country our nation is our small kingdom is suffering from want of money alright my dear king I am going to give you a Edna called kuvira eggnog which can give you all the wealth and so on and so forth anything you want you have a igner developed for that but unfortunately the whole technology has gone and we had to unravel the mystery if you want to really understand the secrets of eggnog but what has been prescribed in performance of eggnog is the positioning and at the physical level everything has been prescribed with great meticulous care why normally at the thermocycler ville things are very haphazard we are ignorant and we throw away things here and there and some of the kids are gone and it's so systematic beautifully organized and well kept and so aesthetics but is some of the ketones everything is thrown here and there you can see the personality manifesting even in kitchens and dining halls and therefore the personality of Thomas has to be transformed into the raddest through systematization so what is done here all those who perform the ignore do they ignite exactly the way it has been prescribed and when they do that slowly that mentality will change to be systemic to grow continuously in a planned way and the place has been fixed and the time when it has to be started is prescribed the shape of the Endicott novel it's a trapezoid whether it is square whether it is round everything will be prescribed by the persons who perform and then where the person has to sit the person who performs the eggnog and his wife and where are the indominus and others sit the perfume maharshi's where should they say everything has been prescribed then comes the diet control over the census Dhamma and you cannot just take coffee in the morning or tea in the morning until the egg now is over you cannot take even a drop of water control over the external senses Dhamma has been brought into order and then you go to the next level at the prana level every Etna has got specific mantras every ritual is featured by specific mantras and mantras or special patterns of sound resonance which bring about special effects and this brings resonance with the cosmic forces and also internally it resonates and brings about the specific results that are needed then at the mind level the person who performs should have full concentration he should perform the whole digna with nice relaxation there should not be tensions and stresses therefore the maharshi's who would make them perform the Ignace we look at them and continuously involve them in various activities all right now you stand up and both of you go around the Etna now you see down now we take so much of rice and put it into so much of ghee and put the whole thing into the fire while the mantras have chanted when the cosmic forces are you invoked all these things have been put as operation to the fire therefore concentration and relaxation is key feature here then your motion level and the emotional level they say you should not become angry you should have total faith there should be the aspect of surrender of bhakti when you perform a edna you can't afford to become angry come what may whatever may happen whatever may be the demanding situation whatever may be the calamity that may occur outside you are allowed to become angry similarly you must have fullest of faith in what you are doing and it was totally surrender to the injunctions and the prescriptions given by the maharshi's no questions asked it is all a set of do's and don'ts and to see that all these things have done meticulously there is the fear of wrath of gods if you don't do these things then not only that you don't get the result probably you will get a boomerang effect you will get a curse from the cosmic forces and people are terrified and they perform all things the way it has been prescribed even a small single mistake anywhere in the whole yet not perform will fail to give the result therefore people become extremely sensitive and very meticulous in performing the things and if they know that they have got that desire fulfilled there is a wonderful incentive of having the desires fulfilled they get the result here - arata got four wonderful children through the poison those were the days very agna was the highly developed technology at the Vedic times and to make it prevalent at a social level the five maniac nos have been prescribed these are essentially fulfilling the obligations in our lives Brahma agna Brahma eggnog he is our obligations towards the knowledge not only that we should acquire the knowledge and the wisdom through education through our teachers and gurus but it was mandatory in the part of the people to share their knowledge and wisdom with the right of students they may ignore obligations towards nature we had to protect the nature unfortunately we have misused our natural resources we are depleting our natural resources you know anxiety to acquire more and more and as a result we have big pollution problem we had to bring in the dimension of ecology and that is the prevalent thing now next the third is the p3 agna p3 agna is or obligations towards our parents our ancestors our elderly people and fortunately today the world over we have lost respect for them and we don't care for them in voltage homes it's such a pathetic situation the sons and daughters do not take care of their parents and they become old and as a result of that the people are put into the old-age home and the voltage home preclude them from all the love they get from their sons and daughters from their grandchildren and imagine a wonderful combined family or people living together because of the technological growth and the people getting jobs in different places once an cutting job in New York that second son getting job in Los Angeles the third one is in Detroit the parents hello to themselves the repercussions of such a social setup has made the parents get isolated and where they get old they are left in the voltage homes and deprived of the great love which keeps and makes their and later ages so enjoyable so this is the type of obligations that yoga prescribes and we can serve them in their old age homes and many of our yoga classes many of our yoga teachers who go to the world age home give them Lord of Solace my giving them counseling and in lot of solace the next is our obligations towards the society towards the guests and that is a DP you know who is a real guest I guess this one who goes without any prior appointment today in the modern society even when we are very very close friends we have to phone and tell okay I am going to come to after tomorrow is it okay for you know the person who said after tomorrow I have got one appointment already fixed up therefore please why don't they come on a Sunday this has become the theme but whereas in the real society we have tremendous hospitality for the guests and such a thing is prevalent even today in the rural India and countryside in many of the developing countries anybody who goes there or welcomed with open arms and even they could be the poorest of the force having hardly a grub to eat or one meal a day and the big families but it's so much a flow so much of perfection they call the guests and feed them and give them to their great at a satisfaction it may mean that they made apply themselves of the right type of food and they may not get the lunch that day but they are very happy in serving goddess Donna daya and Dhamma incorporated it eight forms the foundation and that was so prevalent in a large scale in those societies and fortunately the upbringing of the modern science and technology has made this almost an impossibility and our mentality has changed our mindset has changed and we have become extremely selfish and we have descended from sattva down to the rod SiC level they become self-centered and if only we can bring back this bunch of high ignores into our lives the society will be immaculately harmonious wonderfully peaceful we'll become extremely healthy then we had a third the both a Edna our obligations towards our animals insects the birds and all the other living things in the whole universe fortunately we are slowly realizing the importance of preservation of the species but in our anxiety and the fear and the possible dangers we are started eliminating with big species the Tigers have started vanishing from our front the Lions have started becoming a rarity at Slover either elephant also was getting out of our reach and when such things happen then there later lovers the people who had great kindness and mercy to the animals they form teams and organizations and societies they started talking about the hazards and dangers of removing such species how they are going to bring ecological imbalance how they bring tremendous amount of pollution and how the whole imbalance will be set and such efforts such wonderful mass media awareness that were built they all helped in making this country this nation this entire globe more and more livable by bringing back the balance and that was part and parcel of our lifestyle in ancient times and that is the booth Edna our love for the animals etc in the society thus we have seen now that the movement from Thomas to Rogers register sattva is accomplished by various ways removing our ignorance and darkness Optimus making us brighter into the Rajas and removing the selfishness and the smallness and constricted des approaches in the sat.1 there is portrayed in these three schematics the thermo sink has the least personality expansion risers have a bigger personality under normal conditions and the subtle people who has the biggest personality once they are put into action the thermos ik there's tremendous resistance to action they don't want to do any action they would escape the work they are terrified about the problems and difficulties and therefore their personality completely gets distorted when they are put into action but the rajasic they know how to channelize their energies how to focus their energies and there's tremendous focusing that takes place and this is called Dharana in Raja yoga all the energy started being channelized in concentration now gets focused in the Rajas when this focusing takes place there is intensification of the energy and this intensification of the energy will bring tremendous reserves and dividends but the other face of the coin of the Dharana or focusing is the evolution and the emergence of great tension stress and fitting into versus create a Buddha awesome Todd Rogers amudha algorithm as we saw it is the one that brings great tension and stresses and all the stress hazards that are prevalent today in the modern society asthma diabetes hypertension heart problem epilepsy migraine cancer today it's not withstanding and that is the rajasic society therefore Krishna the Lord of karma yoga says please move from register sattva and it's a bomb you are moving from selfishness to enlightened selfishness or moving from selfishness self-centeredness towards less selfishness actions in which we care for others share with others give for others control of ourselves Donna daya dama you are moving from a self-centered society towards a society in which you care for others help with us and that is the selflessness that form the foundations of all religions as we saw there is less distortion because there is greater pervasiveness greater expansion in the personality and therefore people do the work in a more magnanimous way this is how we move from Thomas to Rogers Rogers to Sutra which in the first phase of growth in karma yoga but then people will be doing excellent work the sarthak work even said people may end up with conflicts to convert every carmine to a yoga we have to first use desires and incentives to shatter the Thomas from there you go into the duty sense harmony was harassed a my operation perform all actions in the sense of a duty then perform actions for the good of others and then they ignore technology which was used to transform the society in a big way and then comes the conflict to help us to move from Karma towards the higher dimension called the Karma King karma he bacame the kappa yo petra Mohit aha that they can provoke Shami yet moksha say Schuberth krishna says that even the brilliant of the people even the best of the thinkers kaviraja happy mojito haha bhavanti they also get deluded they also get confused they also get into a big turmoil they get into conflicts in understanding what is action what is to be done what is not to be done King karma akarma when they end up with such conflicts then even the best of the people lose their heart person like Arjuna he was collapsing and then krishna says that they karma provoke Shami I'm going to tell you the secret I'm going to tell you the way as to how one has to do the action by which all such problems are gone all such conflicts will be removed from our midst you know what are those conflicts we can again recall it could be a conflict between one ethics and another ethics conflict between non-violence and truthfulness it could be conflict between one truth and another truth duty versus duty duty versus ethics and questioning the very foundations of ethics very foundations of duty and asking what is the meaning of life such could be the very very intricate conflicts for example truth versus truth one Sofia with another Satya there is the set of lawyers the lawyers are very very brilliant on the persons who have been charged with criminal thefts can be near murders and the lawyers want to prove that he is absolutely innocent they provide such arguments hearing with the judge will be bewildered he'll be surprised he thinks he says probably this man is not the culprit but then the prosecution side the lawyers will come out and tell their truth they will show all the evidences to show that this fellow is the murderer he the biggest of the culprit he has to be punished and the truth - truth which is the right truth the judge is now in a mix he's in a fix his return moil he is a big conflict similarly between one ethical Norman another ethical norm Santa himself you know the person can be in great turmoil great conflict that's what happened to a surgeon a good surgeon who understands his patient and the very nervous person and if the person is told that he is suffering from cancer then he'll be lost to the world he can overtake the shock and his tumor will aggravate and the doctor very well understands the role of mind in aggravation of the disease and the psychoneuroimmunology is very well conversant therefore what is to be done whether he should tell the truth and face the consequence that the patient may be dead or should he speak the untruth and protect the patient from annihilation what should he do whether he should resort Thun non-violence or should a resort to satya a big conflict conflict between one duty in another duty duty to the parents and duty to the nation when Mahatma Gandhi called the youngsters to come and sacrifice their lives to get the freedom for the nation millions and millions of people came forward but there was a group of youngsters shadowed in different places they had a common problem that their parents were very world and the world parents were suffering from different ailments what is to be done is it not our first duty to take care of the parents in the house who are suffering rather than sacrifice to the nation though they were very much prepared to go to the nation for the national work they were in a big turmoil similarly the common problem due to the wife and duty to the mother and combined families the husband's encounter this big conflict on a daily basis he has a duty to the wife at the same time he has duty to the mother but always the coral breaks between the mother and the sister-in-law the daughter-in-law and when such things happen what is to be done which duty has to be followed then conflict between duty versus ethics as they happen to the biggest of the commander the Arjuna the bravest of the brave among the Warriors he had won several wars before here the biggest of the weapons gone Deva and now he is faced with a big conflict when he faces his own teacher dronacharya who taught him all the weaponry and his family teacher crap acharya and the great grandsire the Bhishma whom he revered and worshipped all people in front of him his heart now comes out with compassion and love and there's a big conflict between the compassion and the love and the ethics with a duty on one frontier perform his duty as a warrior it is immaterial who comes in front of you you have to kill them you have to win the war on the other side his heart is bleeding with compassion and love so he gets a doubt whether it is a humanitarian consideration that is more important or here the duty sense say more the conflict of the pilot who bombed the Hiroshima doing it with all the duty sense or should he show compassion and questioning the very basis of ethics students questioning everything today we're in the aid of science and questioning has been promoted and they start questioning why should I do that why should I do that if anybody says you had to go to the temple you had to go to the mosque here to go to the church you start asking the question why I should do that we should follow all the 10 commandments why should I follow should I follow only because Christ has told should I follow because just because the moon has shown are stealing the very basis of ethics and the duty unity I'd wear the duty oriented society duty to the parents children and everything why should I follow my duty should I not be a free bird why this imposition of Duty questioning questioning questioning and finally the very meaning of life has it happened to Shri Rama at the age of 15 he had finished all his education got tremendous laurels and awards he had one for a long pilgrimage with his parents and brothers he returned then came in his mind these subtle questions what is the real meaning of life is it just to take birth grow educate our sirs soon I am going to become a king maybe marry and produced children and when they die they're all puppets in the hands of the time is it just this or something else he had no answer he got into a deep melancholy a great depression and you know then the vasista had to come and resolve his conflicts karmayoga gives the secrets which we are going to study in the next session thank you you you

Practice summary

Level
all levels
Duration
18 minutes
Equipment
none
Target areas
MindIntellectEthical conductSpiritual understanding
Energy
balancing

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