The word attachment has been very wrongly interpreted in yoga meditation circles. It is not attachment to action but fruits of action that must be negated. That is how we indulged in nishkama karma yoga. Indulging in karma without attaching self to fruits of karma performed is what nishkama karma all about. If welfare of entire mankind was our goal […]
Indulging in karma without attachment to fruits of karma was practicing nishkama karma yoga. Lord Krishna in Bhagavad Gita explicitly details merits of indulging in nishkama karma yoga. Negation of karma, a necessity of spiritual path was possible only through indulgence in nishkama karma yoga. We need working like a trustee, a caretaker for whom everything belonged to God Almighty […]
You are perfectly right in your surmise. If I had been in your place I would have done the same thing. Life truly is not all about earning money. This precept of life is lived by people in West, not in India. Most in India lived only for the sake of money. For them money was not a means birth […]
Working with an unattached attitude was totally different from detachment. This inherent aspect of life has been explicitly detailed in Bhagavad Gita, the sermon given to mankind by Lord Krishna. Working with an unattached attitude means not attaching self to fruits of karma performed. We just could not leave family life midway as did Siddhartha Gautama. Just by touching […]
Our ultimate attachment is towards our doership, the feeling of I. On path of pure spirituality when everything is left behind, what remained was I of our ego (Aham in Hinduism). To cut across ego is the toughest task of all for every traveler of spiritual path. To reach stage of absolute purity, our subduing ego forever was necessitated. This […]