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Articles: Devotion | Karma Yoga
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Half-hearted service is no service at all. Give your whole heart, mind and soul when you serve. This is very important when you practice Karma Yoga. Prepare the mind for Karma Yoga. Mere selfish work can not be taken as yogic activity. The mind is so framed that it always expects something for a small work. How to perform Nishkama Karma Yoga..
Life is very precious. Live in the spirit of Gita's 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 scavanging when done with right spirit and mental attitude is Yogic action. Even a scavanger can realise God in his own station of life by service.
When you work disinterstedly without any agency and when you surrender the works and fruits as Ishvararpana, all karmas transformed into yogic kriyas. Every bit of work is yoga for you. Think that Lord Shiva is working through your hands and is eating through your mouth. Think that your hands are the hands of Lord Shiva. In the begining some of your actions may be selfish and some may be unselfish. In the long run you can do all actions in the unselfish manner. Scrutinise your motives always. This is the key-notefor Nishkama karma yoga. Every action 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 rewards. If you adopt the path of Jnjana, feel you are a silent Shakti and Prakriti does everything.
The spirit of service must deeply enter into your very bones, cells, tissues, nerves, etc.. The reward is invaluable. Practice and feel the cosmic expansion and infinite Ananda. Tall talk and idle gossiping will not help my dear friends.. Evince intense zeal and enthusiasm in work. Be fiery in the spirit of service. 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. 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 mental work in his vision. In the light of Karma Yoga all actions are sacared. That aspirant who always takes immense delight in doing works which are considered by the worldly man as menial services , and who always does things willingly such acts only will become only a dynamic Yogi. He will absolutely free from conceit and egoism. He will have no downfall. The canker of pride cannot touch him. A real yogi does not make any difference between menial and respectable work. It is only an ignorant man who makes such a difference. Some aspirants are humble in the begining of their spiritual carrer. When they get some name and fame, some followers, admirers, devotees and disciples, they become a victims of pride. They can not do any service.
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