Karma Yoga Dictionary

Karma Yoga:

Karma Yoga ("Yoga of action"): the liberating path of self-transcending action

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Karma -

(1) any activity performed in the course of material existence.

(2) pious activities leading to material gain in this world or in the heavenly planets after death.

(3) fate; former acts leading to inevitable results.

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karma yoga:

yoga of work or service

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Karma yoga:

The path of loving, selfless service to the divine.

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 Karma-yoga:

unselfish actions

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Karma Yoga

Path of selfless service, teaching of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita

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Karma Yoga:

Karma Yoga: Attached to God through unselfish actions, characteristic of bhakti. The path of God realization through dedicating the fruits of one's work to God.

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Karma Yoga: The path of Selfless Service Work and Action; a spiritual volunteer of sorts. Dedicating the fruits of one’s work to God. Action is transcended by action. The bonds of attachment fall away. This path is best suited to vigorous temperaments, which feel the call to duty and service in the world of human affairs. It will show people how to ‘find inaction that is within action, the calm in the midst of the turmoil.’

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Karma Yoga: Yoga of service or work.

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Karma Yoga: Yoga of Work or Service

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Asubha-karma - activities producing inauspicious results.

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Karma yoga:

the yoga of action - aims at supreme consciousness through action; discussed in Bhagavad Gita

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Aprarabdha-karma - the accumulated stock of reactions to activities which are lying in a dormant condition and waiting to bear fruit at some time.

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Purva-mimamsa - the philosophy established by Maharsi Jaimini, also known as jaimini-darsana. To thoroughly examine a topic and arrive at a conclusion is known as mimamsa. Mimamsa comes from the verbal root man, to think, reflect, or consider. Because in his book, Maharsi Jaimini has established the correct interpretation of the Vedic statements and how they may be decided through logical analysis, this book is known as mimamsa-grantha. The Vedas have two divisions: purva-kansa (the first part) , dealing with Vedic karma; and uttara-kansa (the latter part) , dealing with the Upanisads or Vedanta. Since Jaimini’s book deals with an analysis of the first part of the Vedas, it is called purva-mimamsa. As Jaimini’s philosophy deals exclusively with an analysis of Vedic karma, it is also known as karma-mimamsa.

Jaimini has minutely examined how Vedic ritualistic karma is to be performed and what its results are. He has accepted the Vedas as apauruseya (not created by any man) , beginningless, and eternal. His philosophy is established on the basis of the Vedas. However, he has given prominence only to Vedic karma. He states that the jivas are meant to performVedic karma only. By proper performance of Vedic karma, one can obtain parama-purusartha, the supreme goal, which in his opinion refers to the attainment of the celestial planets.

In Jaimini’s view, the visible world is anadi, without beginning, and it does not undergo destruction. Consequently, there is no need for an omniscient and omnipotent Isvara to carry out the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the world. Jaimini accepts the existence of pious and sinful karma. According to his doctrine, karma automatically yields the results of its own actions. Therefore, there is no need for an Isvara to award the results of karma.

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Karma: One of the central ideas of Hindu philosophy, Karma is literally action of any kind, including ritual acts. But Karma also includes the concept of cause and effect, the spiritual equivalent of Newton's law that every action has an equal an opposite reaction. Karma itself is the action and bad or good karma refers to past actions.

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A dictionary Of Commonly Used Sanskrit terms. From Dadhicha to Kutichaka.

Please note that all words in grey, like "yoga", "enlightenment" or "kundalini" are hyperlinked to archives further explaining the term. At the corresponding archive you will also find articles related to the term.

A Yoga Dictionary from Abhyasa to Yukti.

From "Kundalini Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda

Karma:

(lit., action)

1)  Any action--physical, verbal, or mental.

2)  Destiny, which is caused by past actions, mainly those of previous lives.

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Karma Yoga (Sanskrit) (from karma action + yoga union)

One of the methods or stages of yoga practice and training, involving attaining at-one-ment or union with the spiritual-divine essence within by means of unselfish action or works.

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Karma:

The sequential flow of consequences.

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