“Work for Work’s sake?”
When you work, do it with hope that it helps somebody; work without expecting anything in return. If there is a motivation behind work (like fame, name, recognition) - rarely does it bring success, even if it does - that will be short lived.
We have to learn and practice Unselfishness
Even if [...]
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Understanding Karma Yoga 3 - Concept of Unselfishness
Posted in Karma Yoga on June 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Karma Yoga: Random pickings - 1
Posted in Karma Yoga on May 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Confessions
Is there any use talking about your mistakes to the world? What has been done by you has been done. We have to learn from our mistakes and do better. In fact, the world will give sympathy to those who are strong, have learnt from their mistakes and move on bravely. Confessions do help – [...]
Karma Yoga: Random pickings - 2
Posted in Karma Yoga on May 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Selfishness
Swami Vivekananda says: The degree of Unselfishness marks the degree of Success everywhere. Now that statement is ‘very heavy’. As human beings we tend to be selfish, we work towards our families, our community, our race, our country. We probably cannot be perfectly unselfish; the goal however is to tend towards unselfishness. Only Godly people [...]
Understanding Karma Yoga 2 - Character
Posted in Character, Karma Yoga on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Our Character
Our character is the sum of all preceding events just like how tiny drops of water make the sea so do all the tiny events in a person’s life makes his/her character. Remember that it takes consistency. Anybody can become a overnight hero at one time, but consistency is what builds character. [...]
Understanding Karma Yoga 1 - Goal of human beings
Posted in Character, Karma Yoga on May 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Karma Yoga (I believe most readers are familiar with ‘yoga’ - joining or uniting) is one of the four pillars of ‘yoga’. It means ‘discipline of action’.
Swami Vivekanada, one of the greatest philosophers from India explained Karma Yoga. I will make an attempt to simplify it to suit our life in this century. Again, the [...]
