Spiritual vs. Worldly Life - How to Reconcile? - Karma Yoga

Any time you devote to spiritual practice is stolen from worldly activities, and vice versa. This conflict is resolved through karma yoga. Life itself becomes your spiritual practice.
The teachings of karma yoga, the spiritual practice of worldly activities, is a main topic taught by Sri Krishna, an avatara or incarnation of Lord Vishnu, in the famous Bhagavad Gita. According to the non-dual spiritual teachings of Advaita Vedanta, karma yoga is necessary to become prepared for enlightenment, moksha. Without becoming an adhikari, prepared student, it is not possible to gain atma jnana, self-knowledge, discovery of your true nature (atma) as sat chit ananda, limitless, uncreated conscious existence, the so-called inner divinity that is the actual source of happiness and contentment. Karma Yoga includes a number of attitudes that transform ordinary activities into spiritual practice. Those attitudes include being a mumukshu, a seeker of enlightenment, understanding the law of karma, understanding Ishwara, God, as the karma phala data, the giver of the results of your deeds, and cultivating a prayerful sense of gratitude.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha...

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Self-inner control of the senses. Inner Patience of Mind, Body and Soul. Balanced and Centered. Aum. Tat. Sat. ☮️

[@joydevghosh8017]

One likely interpretation is that the sense of duty should be the motive behind our action. Sincere effort should be made without bothering for the result. Success or failure can be taken as divine Providence.

[@vrinooanand5866]

i can see the contentment and peace in your eyes swamiji . u r amazing and i want to have the same feelings and emotions as yours

[@rajivikrishnan596]

This is an amazing concept of clearing our doubts through your explanations. I have so many questions and will soon reach you with them. Thank you so much. 🙏🙏

[@laxmangc7237]

Om

[@byomjeet]

Pranaam Swamijee. Thanks for your blessings.

[@tharanidharan2685]

I have struggled with this question and had rationalized a certain explanation. What you shared was an amazing perspective. Thank you.

[@omkrsna5103]

Sawmiji, you explain things so well and make it relatively easy to understand the complexity and profundity of the sublime Vedanta. We are indebted to you.

[@understandinglife1161]

Pranaam Swami ji, thanks for the post, respects🙏

[@federico6284]

Namaste Swami. Deep 🙏 gratitude. ❤️

[@chandrakantshanbhag3058]

Spiritual & Worldly Life explained in a convincing way . SEEKING BLESSINGS FROM SWAMIJI. ॐ

[@Astrospiritualmusings]

Greatly explained in a simplified way🙏🌈

[@Madhura1818]

Very beautiful explanation and inspires us to practice Karma Yoga in daily life. I will try my best to apply it. Thank you Swamiji.

[@waldwassermann]

The spiritual life and the worldly life are ONE and the same in reality.

[@Bluntopinions]

After a month I can finally relax, this question was bothering me for a month. Thanks a lot.

[@srigowriswarna]

Thanks Swamiji. So obviously the next question is how to identify the duties and take decisions in day to day to life so that it adds to our spiritual growth? Without the above the above video will be incomplete. My humble request is please dive deep in depth and cover the entire topic as possible.

[@prakashvakil3322]

Aatmiya Guruji... Hare Krsna. NEED to Work and DESIRE for Worship are the two natural, basic, eternal Activities one and all human beings wishings to fulfill and experience Happiness. One and all of us feel, think and ACT keeping this in MIND. Acknowledging 'Work and Worship". Start saying "Work IS Worship". BUT.............................. Initiating Living Life of "WORKING as WORSHIPING". Loving you Now and Here in this Light and Moment.

[@susannahkelpyotter5595]

With gratitude from South Africa.

[@DYN-sx5sv]

Namaskaram swami ji,

[@mehdidaneshvari4315]

One of the great yogi whom I met was a clerk at the local grocery store, who is focus intensely to separate the bad apples from the good ones.

[@BalaSubramanian-oy7wp]

Very lucid effective presentation from Swami , my sincere Namaskaras. It is said that , do karma which should be within the boundary of dharma or devote to your karma to god or do karma for the benefit of world or do karma without attachment on its fruits

[@vasanthakarunaharan6746]

Thankyou Swami

[@VickMukherjee]

Amazing! This has been bothering me for longer than I realized. Thank you for this insight.

[@vsp237]

Thanks for sharing your wisdom. ☘

[@laika5757]

A true Prophet of our times. 👍

[@angelarapuano1315]

Che grande benedizioni sono questi video chiari , saggi e spiegati con tanta calma e maestria. Mi piacerebbe capire bene se la preghiera può modificare il papa karma . Il mio sentiero spirituale è quello della Self-Realization Fellowship e il mio maestro è Paramahansa Yogananda , seguo con piacere questo canale perché non è in contraddizione con gli insegnamenti ricevuti ma è un aiuto per approfondire e completare la mia comprensione 🙏🏻💓🕉️

[@maheshseshadri490]

Pranayama Swami 🙏

[@umalaurenbowman7276]

Very good topic, with a very good answer! Thank you!

[@uneducatedyogi3034]

Thank you from Cali Swamiji 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@cathyhhhgfluffybissessur5780]

Thank you swamiji.

[@carloscalderon3229]

Acá en Bolivia nos enseñan 3 credos quechua,uno de ellos dice no seas flojo. Ahora si se trata de vivir el día a día con el señor, uno ,para empezar, no debe sentir que lo que este haciendo con cierto nivel de esfuerzo es molesto , este pensamiento viene de un mal hábito, porque tal cosa no es real ,tal vez te hayas acostumbrado a ser flojo ,o perder oportunidades por " perder el tiempo " en lo que haces. Es solo un error , si cocino , leo , me baño ,etc , no hay ninguna razón real para molestarse ,tal vez se tenga la visión de un cielo de vagos. Pero si sabes que todo es creación de Dios , entonces tu corazón e incluso tu respiración será una con el Ser. Hay muchas manifestaciones de sentir la divinidad en todo. Viva la diversidad hindu a la que se hace referencia en otro video

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[@CrouchingscarabflyingJ]

Namaste 🙏

[@rajeevnair2151]

Om Sri Sairam

[@zegalaciptazegalacipta9407]

Good quote about how to realisation in karma yoga life. I am from karangasem Bali. Indonesia. Hindu analisys Rahayu.

[@geetavaidya1104]

Swamiji this is so great to hear again and again on way to achieve a our goal👏🕉thank you.

[@abajaj1510]

Good one ....came at a good time for me...thanks Swamyji

[@chrisaav100]

Shanti, shanti, shanti 🙏

[@latalabhsetwar3796]

Good morning Swamiji, Feels good to hear your talk and get satified.--jersey City, NJ

[@gamingtech8906]

Excellent...thanks

[@anilsinghet]

My love for you swamiji

[@VenkateshDudam]

I'm a techie and I don't believe in magic but I do believe in Science & Technology because Eshwara Sarva Vidyanam, Eshwara Sarva Bhoothanam. Om Nama Shivaya!

[@Scientechlogical_AV]

Hello do meditation every day and you will start believing everything that tecahed by India to the world 😂

[@Rojayzee]

Thank you for this wonderful inspirational talk! ❤️

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Thank you :~) 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@Munkubro]

you're really awesome thanks

[@geetavaidya1104]

👏🕉Thank you Swamiji

[@007bluesky007]

Swamiji, namaste 🙏. You clearly pointed out the choice to make - fulfilment of desires or fulfillment of duty for each activity in the journey of karma yoga. But in daily life, many activities come to your plate from family or from workplace. How do you distinguish them between what's duty and what's for desire. Even duty is a desire to please someone or something related to your own vasanas. Right? How does sastras guide us to distinguish between a duty and desire. Ajnana is very powerful to delude us there. What seems to be a duty on surface is perhaps a desire in disguise and vice-versa. Kindly clear my confusion.🙏

[@arjun3d1]

Thank You, Guruji

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[@normaquesada7307]

Thanks dear teacher.

[@WWG1-WGA]

Thanks so much ! 🙏🏼 I practice dharma, and people around me call my life lucky haha

[@damarubhatta]

Karma yoga maintains that if we work with the sense that whatever we do is the worship of God, our work will not cling to us; we will get liberation. Work is worship.

[@kaholeung9443]

Excellent and clear our doubts practically

[@dublinphotoart]

Amazing... exactly what was bothering me today 🤣🤔

[@carloscalderon3229]

Gracias buena la explicación del tema

[@nayanashwetha7109]

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[@drmms8136]

Pronumm swamiji

[@ashakumari11_]

Well explained Guruji..make one video on Karama yoga please.. thanks n much regards 🙏🙏

[@tzadik36]

Pronaams!🙏

[@dulamsathvik2720]

If you want to be with god or attain moksha...... There are four ways.... Easiest way is chidhambara Swamy dharshanam.....

[@tzadik36]

dulam sathvik "be witn god" is dvaitam; "be god" is advaitam, moksha. It is infinitude, paramarthika. Nothing in vyavaharika can reach it. It CANNOT and NEED NOT be "attained". A darshan invorves a drik and a drishya: it is also dvaitam, not moksha.

[@tzadik36]

Effort helps to advance adhikaritva. No effort is necessary or sufficient for moksha.

[@georgemcwilliams4466]

I have a six figure job. After gaining some measure of wakefulness I have lost all interest in it. How do we know what our duties are? I have already raised my children and my needs are very modest. Am I shirking my duty for dharma by retiring and meditating more? I feel pulled to spend time in nature, love everyone and everything, and by doing so know God better. Is this my dharma, or just another desire?

[@georgemcwilliams4466]

@Truth Speaker Thank you. I must admit I had to look up those words. After reading their respective definitions it would seem that I am currently in Vanaprastha (age 48 - 72, partial retirement, selling my home to live smaller and simpler, senior mentor), but I am headed toward Sannyasa at a rapid pace.

[@redpillmatrix3046]

@@georgemcwilliams4466 read Holy Geeta by swami chinmayanda. It's non-dual interpretation of geeta.

[@debrajmukherjee2721]

Very finely said Guruji ... I had the same question ... beautiful explanation ❤❤❤

[@dikchagurung6477]

This was a big time question. Thank you Swami❤

[@insanestuff9470]

You Amazing 🙏

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[@ViceRoze]

Work with a purpose: Not to expect results, but to cultivate them.

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I loved the intro music and post credits music. where can I get?

[@Rajeswari_Mckearn]

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[@thephoenix1601]

How to be spiritual in this capitalist materialistic world?

[@Mosianit]

I wonder the same...

[@drhishah]

Pranam swamiji Like your lectures .do you have Hindi versions of your lectures

[@elisapalladino3416]

Hola...soy de Argentina y algunos videos como este..no estan traducidos al español..una pena...

[@digosque]

Hari Om, Please sub in spanish. Thanks Tejas

[@SithSolomon]

Act without Attachment to a result.

[@SithSolomon]

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

[@vanamalik3989]

The question was down right wrong. Bagvaan Sri Krishnaa clearly talks about अधिकार: i.e authority or right etc. Not expectations. This profound sloka has been completely twisted and massively promoted by both good and bad people. KrsihaNa says we don't have अधिकार: (Authority to determine the shape, size and timing of the result) in the फलम् (out come). That is all. Where is the question or where is the confusion. ? There is none.

[@Raviran100]

Sir please tell me y our consciousness is fearing to leave this body and it immediately makes mind and body react to protect our body...is consciousness really afraid to leave its present body??

[@BigThapelo]

It can only be afraid if it doesn't know what lies on the other side. Once it knows for sure what's on the other time, it will be anticipating death because then it has realized that Life starts after death

[@redpillmatrix3046]

It's not your consciousness that's afraid its your ego that's afraid

[@saammahakala]

"We" are all prisoners born of "God's" conception, therefore "God" has yet to be born. Try and think of what happens in the split-second an egg becomes fertilized., now imagine on a god-scale from within higher intra-dimensional levels that "we", along with nature/physical reality, are the byproduct of that process unfolding. So there's no reason whatsoever to fear or worship., THAT which "we" all are already a part of. The Shiva Linga is the precursor of the Holy Trinity in describing what is taking place across intra-dimensional levels of existence of a singular being's metamorphosis into..., a God? Just as the physical universes experience multiple crunches and expansions like a heart beat., this being "we" are all part of, will eventually reach a stage in its progress where it will withdraw into itself all of the knowledge or data acquired through experiences from those separate individual consciousnesses whose Souls were able to make it through and beyond the life stages of Mineral, Vegetable and Animal. That's all "we" are., packets of information whose ego-identity becomes sacrificed upon subsumption into the One. Do any of you know what you're really asking for in seeking ultimate liberation? If you enjoy inhabiting a human or any other form capable of expressing your individual character and Will., you're not ready for mergence. With that said., Who are my parents?

[@SithSolomon]

the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

[@Vikramaditya_108]

Wtf are you barking,Solo-monkey

[@HO-mg2yl]

Women is maya so no way for them except for only very very few . Their body is maya and have a value.

[@quakers200]

Don't the followers of any religious tradition act out of desire, some unmet need? You put on a certain attire, walk and talk in certain ways, read sacred texts, sing sacred songs, refrain from certain activities and engage in others but there is an outcome, heaven, enlightenment, Nirvana that you are after and so you suffer. In this case we must end the desire to end desire, As long as you desire enlightenment, you can't have it but when you don't want it it is yours. As Jesus said for those that have much even more will be given while those with little, even that will be taken away. Buddha had to give up his quest before it came to him.

[@bharathihariharan8821]

🙏🙇🧖🙏

[@katiresanarumugam4260]

Worldly life Vs spiritual life? WRONG; evolving humans've Inner+worldly life experiences without conflict. When Inner Call comes @right Time to Select Few, none can resist; they'll discover their inner harmoney, from right source in right discrimination

[@laxmangc9710]

Om

[@priyachandrasena7729]

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