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The Nature of Karma Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a common conception and attempting one to expect that by
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  taking up a certain type of charitable work or even service
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  to support, a particular religion or spiritual path.
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  One is practicing a form of Karma Yoga.
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  All of these things may have enormous benefit in the outer
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  world and may certainly be encouraged.
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  Generally, as a stage away from purely self-aggrandizing action,
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  that has no real benefits to others.
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  It may also find a place in the maturing of the individual
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  Consciousness as long as these things are conducted as an
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  external activity and particularly as they contain the
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  seeds of ego desires. Fire and subtle pressures for
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  self-satisfaction approval of others or some secondary
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  motives. They do not automatically become
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  vehicles for the yoga of works. It is not the outer form of
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  work, that determines the yogic value.
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  But the inner motivation, the dedication, the ego less state
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  of the inner being in the action.
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  When's that interstate is set the form of the outer work.
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  Does not really matter. Simple acts, Small, Deeds can be
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  a complete expression of the yogic data T dedication,
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  undertaking. Those actions that are directed
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  by the Divine through a state of Oneness.
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  The Seeker finds Liberation from the bondage of works and acts in
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  a free selfless and devoted manner.
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  To carry out the work to be done.
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  The bhagwad Gita expounds in detail on the path of Karma
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  Yoga. And the need for inner
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  dedication, rather than some outer standard of action by
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  which to measure the yogic method.
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  SRI aurobindo notes quote. I do not mean by work action,
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  done in the ego and the ignorance for the satisfaction
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  of the ego and in the drive of rajasic Desire.
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  There can be no Karma Yoga without the will to get rid of
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  ego Rogers and desire, which are the Seals of ignorance.
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  I do not mean philanthropy or the service of humanity or all
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  the rest of the things moral or idealistic, which the mind of
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  man substitutes for the deeper truth of works.
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  I mean, by work action done for the Divine and more and more in
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  Union with the Divine for the Divine alone and nothing else
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  naturally, that is not easy at the beginning.
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  Any more than deep meditation and luminous knowledge or easy
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  or even true love and bucked ER easy.
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  But like the others it has to be begun in the right spirit and
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  attitude with the right Willa In you then all the rest will come
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  and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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  Pages 94 to 95,