Man works with various motives. A Karma Yogi works for works sake. They are the salt of the earth who do not care about name, fame or their place in heaven.
They work for the good which will be the result of their work.
They help the poor and mankind from much higher evils, because they believe in doing good and love goodness. And these people, devoid of any selfish desires attain the highest that is attainable to man.
Love, truth, and unselfishness are not merely moral figures of speech, but they form our highest ideal, because in them lies such a manifestation of power.
Any man working without any desire of happiness, wealth or power has a very high moral power. And such a task requires an immense amount of strength. So a man,
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He must take up work as it comes to him and not differentiate as his ego will guide him to, and must strive to make himself unselfish persistently every day.
The selfishness will gradually melt away and he will find himself doing unselfish work and work not guided by his pleasure principles. When the time comes when he is completely unselfish, he will find that all his powers will be concentrated and in his own hands and the knowledge which rested dormant within his soul would open itself to him. He will become Brahman.
Karma Yoga in Practical Life
The aforesaid philosophy is professed by Vedanta and describes what a perfect Karma Yogi is, but how much of this practice is possible in practical life? Can a man do anything without keeping his eyes on the result? Isn’t the result, however it may be, the main motive for anyone to do anything? We breathe so that we can live, we eat to fill our stomach, we work so that we have enough to eat, then how is Karma Yoga applicable in practical life? How does one follow this theory of Vedanta?
Devotion
The answer lies within one of Vedanta’s authoritative texts – The Bhagawad Gita. Lord Krishna, as an answer to Arjuna’s questions,
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By transferring his motivation of action to God, he will not be responsible for the consequences of his actions since he was instructed to perform them. For example, if a police officer is ordered to kill someone during his duty, he will not be taken as a criminal by the law, since the law itself ordered him to do so. The murder will not be on the hands of the police officer but the judiciary of the country, and he will not be responsible for it.
Just like for Arjuna, his actions during the battle was not regarded as misdeeds because they were taken as acts of devotion, because his heart, mind, body and will were fully dedicated to Krishna.
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He has finally discovered the key to a successful society. “ Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.
In the work The Bhagavad-gītā Arjuna struggle with dharma vs karma. which is that he is a warrior and this is his duty to fight in the war, but he will be killing his family members and the fact that he has feeling for the people he is about to kill. The god in the work, Krishna, give him a pretty straight forward answer. Krishna in The Bhagavad-gītā states “you have mourned those not to be mourned the wise do not grieve for those who are gone… there was no time when I was not, nor you, nor these lords around us, and there will never be a time henceforth when we shall not exist.”
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