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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
wisdom.
Do you expect anything from your small son, if you do something for him? In a similar manner you will have to work for others also without expecting anything. You will have to expand your heart and think that this whole world is your own Self. It gives you
little pain in the beginning because you have never worked up to this time in this line of selfless and disinterested service. When you have tasted a bit of the bliss of Karma Yoga, you can never leave it. The force of Karma Yoga will induce you to work more and more with great zeal and enthusiasm. You will begin to feel that this world is a manifestation of God. You will gain immense inner strength and purity of heart. You heart will be filled with mercy, sympathy and pure love. Your spirit of self-sacrifice will grow ad infinitum Selfishness of all sorts will be annihilated. Those who work in the public field for the welfare of the country and suffering humanity can realize the truth of this statement.
Non-attachment is dispassion or indifference to the sensual enjoyments. Non-attachment is Ihamutrarthaphalabhogaviraga-indifference to sensual pleasures of all kinds, herein and hereafter, which is one of the items in Sadhana Chatushtaya, or the four means of salvation for the aspirant on the path of Jnana Yoga or Vedanta. It is purely a mental state. The binding link is really in the mind. Ahamta and Mamata are the two poisonous fangs of the mind
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