Karma Yoga

Karma yoga comes with numerous benefits for your mental, emotional, and spiritual health. In the Bhagavad Gita, we are taught that our karma is result of our actions in this life and in our past lives. By practicing karma yoga, you can further your spiritual development and build a strong connection with your community. Karma yoga can increase your sense of positivity, fulfillment, and help you achieve enlightenment.

You don’t need to go to a class or follow a schedule for karma yoga. To practice karma yoga, you must simply perform selfless acts for the benefit of others, without expectations of a reward.

Karma yoga comes from the four main paths of yoga described in the Bhagavad Gita. In Sanskrit, “yoga” means “union,” and karma yoga represents a union, or connection, with your community and the world at large. Referred to as the “yoga of action,” karma yoga is practiced by performing selfless acts of service for the benefit of others.

The difference between karma and karma yoga comes down to action, and who the action is for. Karma refers to the result of our actions in our past lives and our current life. Karma yoga refers to genuine selfless action that is performed without attachment, and regular practice can free your soul from past karmas.

The characteristics of karma yoga are fairly simple. To practice karma yoga, you must perform actions that benefit others, but you must do so without expectation or attachment.

Karma yoga and sannyasa both contain similar tenets, in that they are designed to bring about purification of one’s karma. In fact, both can exist within each other, since sannyasa refers to a stage of spiritual development in one’s life, and karma yoga is a path in which you may travel to deepen your spiritual practice.