The Essence of Karma Yoga — the Yoga of Works

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Humanity has relied on social
action, technology and education

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as pillars of advancement and
the development of humanity.

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Yet, if we examine things
closely, we find that we are

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still driven primarily by the
forces of ego and desire.

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Even when they cloak themselves
in a veneer of altruism or

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philanthropy, All of our
science, all of our religious

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ideals.
All of our moral rules, all of

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our technological advancement,
All of our education May improve

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the surface of life, but they
have done very little.

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If anything to solve the
problems, caused by greed,

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self-dealing possessiveness and
a narrow approach that only

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seeks the short-term benefit of
the individual and his close

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group of Associates whether
Family Friends, Community,

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religious following ideological
Brethren Etc, Without attending

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to The Wider needs of the rest
of humanity, the environment.

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The other beings who share the
planet with us or indeed, the

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universal creation and its
ultimate intent and purposes

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what is required is something
that has never been fully

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understood or implemented widely
in humanity.

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And that is a conscious effort
to change consciousness.

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To widen to embrace the Divine
Purpose and to act from that

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standpoint, rather than from the
ego personalities, own narrow

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vision.
When we recognize that all of

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these outer attempts for
Progress, do not address the

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underlying core issues.
We begin to understand the

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message of the Gita and its view
of Karma, Yoga with the inner

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standpoint, and view the
essential determining Factor,

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not the outer work, Such a view
recognizes that the illusion of

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importance is another ego screen
that we raise up to continue the

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old patterns.
We exercise a sense of vanity

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that we are doing something
important or valuable.

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When we tackle the big issues
and fail to recognize much of

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the time that we still have not
succeeded in addressing the

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needed change in human nature.
In reality, simple tasks

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undertaken from the Divine
standpoint are essential to the

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needed transformation far, more
than major projects undertaken

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in the spirit and under the
impulsion of the ego.

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SRI aurobindo notes, quote.
The only work that spiritually

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purifies is that, which is done
without personal motives,

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without desire for fame or
public recognition or worldly

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greatness without insistence on
one's own mental motives or

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vital lusts and demands or
physical preferences, without

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vanity or crude self-assertion
or claim for position or

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Prestige done for the sake of
the Alone all work done in an

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egoistic Spirit.
However, good for people in the

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world of the ignorance is of no
avail to the seeker of the yoga.

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All should be done quietly from
within working speaking Reading

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Writing as part of the real
Consciousness, not with the

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dispersed and unquiet movement
of the ordinary consciousness.

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Of course, the idea of bigness
and smallness is quite foreign

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to the spiritual truth
spiritually.

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There is nothing, big or small.
Such ideas are like those of the

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literary people who think,
writing a poem is a high work

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and making shoes or cooking the
dinner as a small and low one,

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but all is equal in the eyes of
the spirit.

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And it is only the spirit within
with which it is done.

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That matters.
It is the same with a particular

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kind of work.
There is nothing big or small in

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quote reference SRI aurobindo in
the mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 5 growth of

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Consciousness means and methods
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