Book Title: Practice of Karma Yoga
Author(s): Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society

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________________ PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA Yagasthah Kuru Karmanı Sangam Tyaktva Dhanan jaya Sidhyasıdhyoh Samo Bhutva, Samatvam Yoga Uchyate "Perform action, O Dhananjaya, dwelling in union with the Divine, renouncing attachments, and balanced evenly in success and failure; equilibrium is Yoga ” Gita: Chapter II-48. You will have to leave even such subtle attachment as. "May God be pleased " Work merely for the sake of the Lord Then even eating, walking, talking, sleeping, breathing and answering calls of nature will become Yogic activity Work becomes worship This is the great secret. You will have to learn it by gradual practice in the field of Karma Yoga You will have to spiritualize all your actions. You will have to transmute all your actions into Yoga by practice. Mere theorising will not do Understand the secrets of Karma Yoga Work unselfishly. Become a true Karma Yogi and enjoy the infinite bliss of the Atman. Merit and demerit, Punya and Papa, do not affect that Karma Yogi who has evenness or equanimity of mind, for he exults not over the good fruit of the one nor worries over the bad fruit of the other He has equanimity of mind in success and failure. His mind is always resting in God all the while Works which are of a binding nature lose that character when performed with a balanced mind The Karma

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