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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Advanced Karma Yoga

Find out how karma yoga can take you to enlightenment

Ramakrishna Ananda refers to chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita:  The karma yogi offers his/her work and then himself/herself to the Lord. He or she seeks to realize they are but an instrument in the hands of the Lord and that God’s love and light are moving and expressing in their lives. Karma yoga can take them all the way to enlightenment.

Keys to Higher Yogas, Karma Yoga, Work, Selfless Service

Sannyas Yoga

In sannyas yoga, you’re not only offering your work, you’re offering yourself. Karma yoga is the attitude, “I’m offering this work to you, Lord.” This develops into, “I’m offering not just the work, but myself too.” That’s advanced karma yoga. Not only offering the work but, as you work, offering yourself. It’s an inspired, enriching, empowering way to work.

  • The first step of karma yoga is to offer one’s work to God every day, working without selfish motive
  • In sannyas yoga, we seek to be an instrument, offering both our work and ourselves to the Lord
  • Chapter five of the Bhagavad Gita:  “When the mind is purified by karma yoga, one realizes oneself as the self in all beings.”
  • Sri Ramakrishna:  “When one realizes God, one is freed from feelings of agency and bondage.”
  • Advanced karma yoga brings us to God consciousness — God moving, working and expressing through us
  • We lose our egoistic feeling and know that we’re Spirit. Karma yoga has brought us to spiritual realization

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