(KARMAYOGA) Reaching the highest level of Karmayoga
Posted by RisingCitizen at Tuesday, July 20, 2010We studied the impact of mind and our senses that prompt us to do action. We also saw that their control is not just important but mandatory to reach God. When mind is stable (as covered in http://decodingbhagvadgita.blogspot.com/2010/06/karmayoga-unbound-actions-lead-to.html), and when one is able to control the mind and does action with the feeling of equanimity - one reaches the highest state of Karmayoga. The end point of Karmayoga is the beginning of Sankhyayoga. So, let us see the starting and ending points of Karmayoga.
In short, the starting point of Karmayoga is doing action without attachment to results - this is also called disinterested action.
"To the contemplative soul who desires to climb the heights of Karmayoga, disinterested action is the stepping-stone; for the same man when he is established in Yoga, absence of all thoughts of the world is said to be the way to blessedness."
(Chap 6 -verse 3)
"In this path, there is no loss of effort, nor is there fear of contrary result, even a little practice of this discipline saves one from the terrible fear of birth and death."
(Chap 2 -verse 40)
"Arjuna, in this Yoga, the intellect is determinate and directed singly towards one ideal; whereas the intellect of the undecided (the one moved by desires) wanders in all directions, after innumerable sins."
(Chap 2 -verse 41)
The highest point of Karmayoga is when a man ceases to have any attachment to objects of senses.
"When a man ceases to have any attachment either for the objects of senses or for actions, and has renounced all thoughts of the world, he is said to have climbed the heights of KARMAYOGA."
(Chap 6 -verse 4)
"Action with a selfish motive is far inferior to this Yoga in the form of equanimity. Do seek refuge in the equipoise of mind, Arjuna; for poor and wretched are those who are instrumental in making their actions bear fruit."
(Chap 2 -verse 49)
"Endowed with equanimity, one sheds in this life both good and evil. Therefore, strive for the practice of this Yoga of equanimity. Skill lies in the practice of this Yoga."
(Chap 2 -verse 50)
"For wise men possessing an equipoised mind, renouncing the fruit of actions and freed from the shackles of birth, attain the blissful supreme state."
(Chap 2 -verse 51)
"When your mind will have fully crossed the mire of delusion, you will then grow indifferent to the enjoyments of this world and the next that have been heard of as well as to those that are yet to be heard of."
(Chap 2 -verse 52)
If we cannot reach this highest point, Krishna offers some solutions so that we reach him
"The Karmayogi, however, who depends on Me, attains My grace - the eternal, imperishable state, even though performing all actions."
(Chap 18 -verse 56)
"Mentally resigning all your duties to Me, and taking recourse to Yoga in the form of even mindedness, be solely devoted to Me and constantly give your mind to Me."
(Chap 18 -verse 57)
"With your mind thus given to Me, you shall tide over all difficulties by My grace. And if, from egotism, you will not listen, you will be lost."
(Chap 18 -verse 58)
So, to follow Karmayoga, one needs to understand the following:
a) Action is inevitable
b) Action which is duty should not be renounced
c) Action which is sacrifice must be performed.
d) Any action - one should give up the fruits of activities as only doing action is in man's control.
e) Controlling the mind and the sense objects is the key to do Karmayoga.
f) Everyone is bound by the results of their actions, except when they are done for the sake of sacrifice
g) You can avoid any sin in action only when it is done as a sacrifice or surrendering the action to God.
h) Surrendering the action and its results to the God is the simplest and the most powerful thing to follow in life and automatically we become Karmayogi's.
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