"karma Yoga: lecture on freedom." - Marco M.

karma Yoga: lecture on freedom.

Out of the newage superficiality, the basis of Karma Yoga is an authentic and profound teaching on the meaning of personal freedom.

Karma Yoga teaches you not to expect anything from your actions. According to karma yoga, true free action is that which is not tied to an expectation and a result. What does this mean? To understand this, it is first necessary to clarify that this modality is the exact opposite of the Western one, that is, of the mercantile mentality. Us Westerners, considering that the West (if it still makes sense to call it that) has culturally conquered the world, act with a view to a result. We do something to get something back.  Some interpretations of Karma Yoga, on the other hand, explain that every action must be done as an offering to God, but in this case, since when you think of God you imagine an entity capable of punishing or rewarding you, you still risk returning to action with the hope of obtaining a result.

I, on the other hand, urge you to consider a different interpretation of Karma Yoga that I consider more authentic. That is, doing everything possible to act only and exclusively to express the beautiful and the virtuous. But please don't misunderstand. I am not saying that we act in order to obtain beauty and virtue, but it is the action, or the absence thereof, which are in themselves beauty and virtue. The focus, therefore, is shifted not to a future, "I do this to achieve that later", but rooted in the eternity of the present. I assure you that when you manage to find harmony with virtue/beauty (these are two terms that indicate the same space) you will not need anyone to give you a confirmation because such is the immediate sense of well-being that you will know without a shadow of a doubt what authentic freedom is.

m.m.