Eknath Eswaran: Work as a Chance to Grow
Yoga means you are making yourself "Whole"
Undivided, which is the goal of "Spiritual Life"
There are different paths of Yoga:
- Bhakti Yoga : Attaining the Holistic state Through devotion
- Karma Yoga : Attaining the Holistic state Through Work
- Gnana Yoga : Attaining the Holistic state Through Knowledge
- Brahma Yoga : Attaining the Holistic state through Vedic astrology
Today we will discuss about : Karma Yoga:
Eknath Eswaran in his interpretation of Bhagavad Gita summarizes: Karma Yoga in a simple phrase;
"Complete Attention to the Job at Hand with a sense of Detachment"
- Complete Attention : When we divide our attention we split ourselves - which weakens everything we do!
- Job at Hand : Job in front of us ,is the job worth doing, however mundane it seems to be ; when we postpone or neglect a task worth doing , we are again dividing our attention
- Sense of Detachment : When we get personally entangled with the outcome of our job at hand, we are again dividing our attention!
So essentially all the three elements of Karma Yoga reduces to a single skill :
"Unifying our attention"