Karma yoga

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Karma Yoga ( Sanskrit , m., कर्मयोग, karmayoga) or karmamarga is one of the three or four yogas or margas, dt. Ways in Hinduism. Karma yoga is the ' yoga of action' and means acting without attachment to your deeds. Karma yoga is often understood as yoga of selfless ( altruistic ) service.

Karma Yoga, the path of works, seeks to surrender all human activity to the exalted will. It begins with the rejection of all ego-like purposes of our works, of all undertaking an action out of an ego-like interest or for the sake of a worldly result. Serenity, renunciation of all desire for the fruit of our work and an action that is offered as a sacrifice to the Lord of our nature and all of nature; these are the three basic approaches to God on the path of Karma Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita . It is one of the three recommended ways ( marga ) to salvation ( moksha ), which the traditions of the Hindus show.

In the Bhagavadgita (II.48), for example, Krishna , for Hindus the God incarnate, teaches : Give up attachment, O Arjuna, and do your works, established in yoga. Be indifferent to success and failure. Equanimity is called yoga . In the 3rd chapter it goes on: For the contemplative there is the path of knowledge, for the active there is the path of selfless action. Nobody becomes perfect by giving up work. Nobody can renounce doing, the Gunas inevitably force everyone to do so . Therefore, you must perform every act as an offering to God and be free from any attachment to the results.

The other ways are: Jnana Yoga (path of knowledge), Bhakti Yoga , (Yoga of devotion) whereby many Hindu teachers (such as Vivekananda ) add a fourth Raja Yoga ("King Yoga"), which the others integrate into the first ways see. Karma Yoga is also an important part of Aurobindo's integral yoga . The yoga of action, the becoming one with God in our will and action (not only in our knowledge and feeling) is an indispensable, inexpressibly important element of an integral yoga . (Aurobindo)

literature

  • Swami Vivekananda: Karma Yoga. The path of work. Phenomenon, Neuenkirchen 2004, ISBN 3-933321-55-7 .
  • Swami Satyasangananda, Swami Satyananda: Karma Sannyasa. Satyananda Yogazentrum, Hergensweiler 1988, ISBN 3-928831-03-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Search results for "karma". In: spokensanskrit.org . Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  2. Search results for "yoga". In: spokensanskrit.org . Retrieved April 28, 2020 .