Top 100 Quotes About Karma Yoga
#1. In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of consecrated action.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. There are different pathways - be it Zen, tantra, karma yoga, or jnana yoga. Different ways have been devised to do the same thing for different types of people according to their temperament.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.
Swami Vivekananda
#4. Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Vinoba Bhave
#5. Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. The intellectual approach to Ganesha is called gyan yoga. The emotional approach to Ganesha is called bhakti yoga. And a mechanical, ritualistic, approach to Ganesha is called karma yoga. Different
Devdutt Pattanaik
#7. The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.
Swami Vivekananda
#8. Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.
Amit Ray
#9. This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.
Frederick Lenz
#11. When this life ends, I will be absorbed back into you. I have come forth from you . You are all good and you know all that there is. So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second. Let me be but an extension of your being. Teach me how to live and love selflessly, at all times.
Frederick Lenz
#12. As a yoga practitioner with some understanding of how karma works, you have to ask the question, "If I am seeking liberation, will it serve my purpose to rob other beings of their freedom?"
Sharon Gannon
#13. What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.
Frederick Lenz
#14. We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.
Frederick Lenz
#15. If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.
Frederick Lenz
#16. The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.
Frederick Lenz
#17. We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.
Frederick Lenz
#18. You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.
Frederick Lenz
#20. If we think of Albert Schweitzer, Ghandi, Lincoln, we feel that the people who were the most outstanding in the this world are those who have given the most of themselves.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.
Frederick Lenz
#22. We try to fulfill ourselves, even though our inner voice tells us to become all that we are - still, we run from it.
Frederick Lenz
#23. We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.
Frederick Lenz
#24. We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#25. We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
Frederick Lenz
#26. In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.
Frederick Lenz
#28. When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.
Frederick Lenz
#29. Very often people give to others to control them and dominant them.
Frederick Lenz
#30. We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#31. You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
Frederick Lenz
#32. Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.
Sharon Gannon
#35. The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!
Frederick Lenz
#37. There is the path of karma, selfless action, the path of love and devotion, the path of training the mind and the path of Yoga, mantra and tantra this is what the various saints advocated.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#38. So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.
Frederick Lenz
#40. The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
Frederick Lenz
#41. Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#42. When you're going though a difficult time, forget about yourself for a while. Go do something for someone else. This is the fastest way to pull yourself out of a negative state.
Frederick Lenz
#43. The reason why we're not happy is because we believe consciously and subconsciously that we're separate from god, eternal awareness.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.
Frederick Lenz
#45. Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#48. If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some way contained in our awareness. Our awareness is like the sky, it's endless.
Frederick Lenz
#49. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#50. When you do something "selflish" you'll feel constricted and restricted. You won't be happy.
Frederick Lenz
#51. The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.
Frederick Lenz
#52. You don't need a special task. Every task is special.
Frederick Lenz
#53. If we give purely, it opens up a doorway in our heart and it gives us the vision to see that those we give to are God.
Frederick Lenz
#54. We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.
Frederick Lenz
#56. The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred.
Banani Ray
#57. Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
Frederick Lenz
#58. You could sit around and feel sorry for yourself or you can go out and do things for others.
Frederick Lenz
#59. If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.
Frederick Lenz
#60. Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.
Sharon Gannon
#61. If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#62. If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.
Frederick Lenz
#63. When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.
Alan Finger
#64. The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.
Frederick Lenz
#65. The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
Frederick Lenz
#66. There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#68. If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.
Frederick Lenz
#69. You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Selflessness implies fun. Its fun to be free. Freedom is inner stillness and not being haunted by your desires, your fears, your aggressive tendencies ... it's being cool.
Frederick Lenz
#71. Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.
Frederick Lenz
#73. Selfless giving is love in action. Initially you will feel that you should help in a certain way, with a certain result. Do your best, but don't be concerned with results; do it for the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#74. Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
Frederick Lenz
#75. You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Frederick Lenz
#76. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Frederick Lenz
#77. We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving you have no time for this. You just push these emotions out.
Frederick Lenz
#78. If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.
Frederick Lenz
#79. It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.
Amit Ray
#81. Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#82. Each day try and go through the day with an attitude of being a servant to the world. You'll benefit the most - and the way will be joyous.
Frederick Lenz
#83. You can tell a person's level of spiritual devlopment simply by watching how much they give.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like "yoga" or "karma", it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.
Debra Ollivier
#86. Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.
Frederick Lenz
#87. Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others.
Frederick Lenz
#88. By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
Frederick Lenz
#91. Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.
Frederick Lenz
#92. The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.
Frederick Lenz
#93. Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.
Frederick Lenz
#95. What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
Frederick Lenz
#96. Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
Frederick Lenz
#99. Selfless giving is being nice and there are times we don't want to be.
Frederick Lenz
#100. Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.
Frederick Lenz
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