When you do more of what you love, you're totally IN the moment, in the activity. Your mind does not wander. It does not bother to check facebook or complain about your neighbour. It doesn't create "psychological time" as per Eckhart Tolle. Eckhart Tolle says, there is no time.. there is only psychological time, created by the mind. So, you don't create new memories/ conditioning/ preferences and dislikes during the time when you do something passionately. So you do not create new karma. We can also feel that we never feel drained when we do things we love. We always have the energy to do it and the activity also generates energy for us.
We all spend a majority of our time at work. So it's important that you be present fully at your work. If your work is such that you feel distracted mostly, you need to think. So, no matter what you earn, if you're in a job that created psychological time, it's time to quit. It may not be possible for everyone to take this step as we all have family commitments and we need the month end paycheck. But if we have the courage to do some introspection and try to find a way out, we will be rewarded. Else, if we can train the mind to look at our current jobs as more than jobs, in a joyful way and focus on the job, we are still good. At the end of life, you carry forward your karmas to the next birth, not the wealth that you have accumulated. Right?
On hindsight I think this is life's mechanism to move you from something you were not destined to do, to guide you to the things you should be doing, which are suitable for your svadharma. When you do things that you like, the voice in the head goes silent. You feel peaceful. You can sense a harmony. There may be other things in the day that you "need" to do, which you may not really like to do, which can cause imbalance, but that's still ok. If a majority of the time you work in harmony, you're doing good and slowly you can also find ways to make the rest of the day harmonious.
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Bhagavan Ramana : Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. If we can attain it or
be in that state, it is all right. But one cannot reach it without effort, the effort of deliberate meditation. All the age-long vasanas carry the mind outward and turn it to external objects. All such thoughts have to be given up and the mind turned inward. For that, effort is necessary for most people. Of course everybody, every book says, “Summa iru” i.e., “Be quiet or still”. But it is not easy. That is why all this effort is necessary. Even if we find one who has at once achieved the mauna or Supreme state indicated by “Summa iru”, you may take it that the effort necessary has already been finished in a previous life. So that, effortless and choiceless awareness is reached only after deliberate meditation. That meditation can take any form which appeals to you best. See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Following is Sadhguru's thoughts on karma yoga.
Karma yoga has unfortunately been described as service, but it is not so. It is a way of undoing the impressions that you have gathered. If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen!
Generally it is through various activities that you perform that you get entangled and enmeshed with life. But if the activity becomes a process of liberation instead of entanglement, it is karma yoga. Whether it is work or walking on the street or talking to someone, the nature of the activity is not important. When you do something only because it is needed, where it does not mean anything to you but you are capable of involving yourself as if that is your life, it transforms you and action becomes liberating.
We all spend a majority of our time at work. So it's important that you be present fully at your work. If your work is such that you feel distracted mostly, you need to think. So, no matter what you earn, if you're in a job that created psychological time, it's time to quit. It may not be possible for everyone to take this step as we all have family commitments and we need the month end paycheck. But if we have the courage to do some introspection and try to find a way out, we will be rewarded. Else, if we can train the mind to look at our current jobs as more than jobs, in a joyful way and focus on the job, we are still good. At the end of life, you carry forward your karmas to the next birth, not the wealth that you have accumulated. Right?
On hindsight I think this is life's mechanism to move you from something you were not destined to do, to guide you to the things you should be doing, which are suitable for your svadharma. When you do things that you like, the voice in the head goes silent. You feel peaceful. You can sense a harmony. There may be other things in the day that you "need" to do, which you may not really like to do, which can cause imbalance, but that's still ok. If a majority of the time you work in harmony, you're doing good and slowly you can also find ways to make the rest of the day harmonious.
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Bhagavan Ramana : Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. If we can attain it or
be in that state, it is all right. But one cannot reach it without effort, the effort of deliberate meditation. All the age-long vasanas carry the mind outward and turn it to external objects. All such thoughts have to be given up and the mind turned inward. For that, effort is necessary for most people. Of course everybody, every book says, “Summa iru” i.e., “Be quiet or still”. But it is not easy. That is why all this effort is necessary. Even if we find one who has at once achieved the mauna or Supreme state indicated by “Summa iru”, you may take it that the effort necessary has already been finished in a previous life. So that, effortless and choiceless awareness is reached only after deliberate meditation. That meditation can take any form which appeals to you best. See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Following is Sadhguru's thoughts on karma yoga.
Karma yoga has unfortunately been described as service, but it is not so. It is a way of undoing the impressions that you have gathered. If you can joyfully involve yourself in any activity, that is karma yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma will come, no yoga will happen!
Generally it is through various activities that you perform that you get entangled and enmeshed with life. But if the activity becomes a process of liberation instead of entanglement, it is karma yoga. Whether it is work or walking on the street or talking to someone, the nature of the activity is not important. When you do something only because it is needed, where it does not mean anything to you but you are capable of involving yourself as if that is your life, it transforms you and action becomes liberating.
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