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Yoga means union. Best Yoga Classes in Rishikesh and Karma Yoga is the means to an end. It cleans the heart and prepares the aspirant for reception of knowledge. Thus, Karma Yoga is Yoga or union through action. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Arjuna asks Lord Krishna, ‘If Thou think that knowledge is superior to action, Krishna, why then, dost Thou ask me to engage in this terrible action?’ Lord Krishna explains, ‘Not by non-performance of actions does man reach motionlessness; nor does he rise to perfection by mere renunciation’. 

He further explains that, ‘None can ever remain really actionless even for a moment; for everyone is weak driven to action by the forces (Gunas) of Nature (Prakriti).’ The choice for human being is not between action (Karma) and inaction (Akarma) because we cannot remain without action. The choice is regarding what sort of actions to perform and with what attitude or approach. Every human being compulsive engages in doing Karma that acts, with the body or with the speech or with the mind. All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the material nature. Therefore no one can withhold from doing something, not even for a moment, as even one´s thoughts count as Karma.

All work by nature is cool of good and evil – we cannot do any work which will not do some good somewhere and at the same time, there cannot be any work which will not cause some injury somewhere. Every work must surely be a mixture of good and evil. Yet we are commended to work incessantly. Good and evil will both have their results, will produce their Karma. Good action will need upon us good effects; bad action, bad. But good and bad are both subjection of the soul. The solution reached in the Gītā in regards to this subjection, is that, if we do not attach ourselves to the work we do, it will not have any binding effects on our soul.

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Those who have tendency or Tendency to work are fit for Karma Yoga. In every man there are three assign (Gunas) – Sattva (purity, light or harmony), Rajas (passion or motion) and Tamas (Darkness or inertia). Sometimes Tamas overcome and we become lazy, inactive and dull. At other times Rajas overcome displaying energy in activity, power and passion. At still another times, we find sweetness, calmness, and gentleness, which are due to Sattva; balancing of both action and inaction. So in all design in animals, plants and men – we can find the more or less typical manifestation of all these different forces.
Karma yoga distribute with these three factors by teaching what they are and how to employ them. Freeing self from the pair of opposites (pleasure and pain) and remain in the quality of Sattva, freed from (the thoughts of) acquisition and preservation, and be established in self. Equilibrium!

Only the study of the Vedas will not free one from the Karmic cycles. There is no hope of Lifeline even in millions of birth for the dry Vedantic student, who has taken to the study of Upanishads without purifying his heart through the practice of Karma Yoga. He is like a free vessel which makes much noise. An empty Vedantin, a mere book-worm without purification of heart, disturbs the world by unnecessary argument, quarrels and useless discussions. A real Vedantin is a Protection to the world. He preaches through the language of silence or the language of the heart. He always serves with Atma- Bhava (Selflessness).

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Nada Yoga Courses in Rishikesh and Karma can be transformed into Yoga by keeping the goal of Self-realization ALL THE TIME! We are Eternal, deathless. We are beyond the bounds of time. It is true; but let this not loosen our efforts to realize the Self in this very birth. Every day we must introspect and find out if we are progressing. Maya (illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world) is ever ready to delude and lead us astray. She has ever so many forms. Pride of service, arrogance of position, conceit of achievement, attachment to accomplishments, desire for comfort, greed for power, anger at those who obstruct our seizure of power, and innate wish to overwrite, oppress and misbehave towards others on account of an inborn superiority-complex – these are some of the heavenly damsels that always surround us to tempt us away from our high goals.