Karma Yoga Quotes

“I personally feel that karma yoga makes much more sense if one is seeking transcendence. We weren’t thrown in this world just to deny and run away from it. A man must be a doer and not an escapist.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“Karma yoga is giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, shelter to the homeless, education to the uneducated, medicine to the sick, and trees and cleanliness to the environment.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“Teaching yoga itself is great karma yoga, because it reconnects people to the source.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“The Love factor makes anything hallowed, and an action is no exception. Doing things with love makes the work sacred.”
― Banani Ray, Flow Yoga The Mindful Path of Action for Transforming Stress into Happiness

“Karma Yoga is mindful service to the humanity with love and respect.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“Whatever you do, always remember the Divine.
5 May 1954”
― The Mother, Words of the Mother - II

“The thing you know as Karma, does not really exist the way you think. It can only exist through the law of causality, which means, when you make efforts to achieve something, the results do indeed occur, given enough time, resources and above all, perseverance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“In the Bgagavad Gita why should God ask us not to expect the results? Is He aware that the systems in nature, that is, the order of the world created by Him, do not have a fool proof provision for it? Then is it not a rational world ensuring justice to all the actions delivered by man? One wonders why God, the supreme creator of this universe, does not have a system in place for ensuring a matching reward for all our actions.”
― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life

“Even though there is no certainty that the expected results of our work will manifest, we have to remain committed to our work and duties; because, even if the results are slated to arrive, they cannot do so without the performance of work. This should be the spirit of a follower of the way of action, that is, Karma Yoga.”
― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life

“Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. (p. 236)”
― Ramana Maharshi, Talks With Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness

“One important aspect of the Gita which remains is that even though it presents to us some diverse paths as a way of life, such as action, devotion, knowledge and meditation, it does not impose any of these paths on an individual. Rather, it leaves the choice to the people, because the followers of all these paths are essential for the smooth functioning of the world, and any en masse inclination towards only one of them would jeopardize the society by causing an imbalance in its system. The Gita also recognizes that the path that one should follow is determined primarily by the free choice of man as well as his inherent nature, which can be interpreted as a genetic inheritance he is endowed with.”
― Nihar Satpathy, The Puzzles of Life

“Karma-yoga is the most fundamental path to attain self-knowledge.In fact, as long as there is no Karma Yoga in place, no other spiritual practices will yield fruit.”
― Shiva Negi

“The Best Way To Achieve Success In Any Area Of Life Is To Surrender Yourself To It And You Will Get It.”
― Shiva Negi

“जाग्रत, उत्तिष्ठ, जगत् स्कन्धे गृहाण।”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Man is, as it were, a centre, and is attracting all the powers of the universe towards himself, and in this centre is fusing them all and again sending them off in a big current. Such a centre is the real man—the almighty, the omniscient—and he draws the whole universe towards him. Good and bad, misery and happiness, all are running towards him and clinging round him; and out of them he fashions the mighty stream of tendency called character and throws it outwards. As he has the power of drawing in anything, so has he the power of throwing it out.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga: the Yoga of Action

“To be a conscientious human is real karma.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Real karma or real human duty is the act that is carried out with the genuine hope of bringing a change outside of us – in the world, not in anticipation of reward. And that very act of pure conscience is karma, morality, religion, godliness, spirituality all together. These are all varied terms for the one and the same thing, that is being a conscientious human being. In short, to be a conscientious human is real karma – it is real spirituality – it is real religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The Sanskrit term “Karma” simply refers to “duty”, that is, your everyday duty as a human being. And this duty has no mystical intervention in it – it has no divine law that can determine a certain reward in return. It’s plain ordinary everyday human action.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Bliss is in action without expectation.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Focus on the process more than the goal; goal leads to success or failure, process leads to the goal.”
― Ashim Sarmah

“If you are pretending to meditate, you are meditating already. Because you know you are pretending. Knowing what you are doing is meditation. Karma yoga is karma plus awareness.”
― Saroj Aryal

“One's own duty, though devoid of merit, is preferable to the duty of another well performed. Even death in the performance of one's own duty brings blessedness; another's duty is fraught with fear. ( Chapter III, Shloka- 35)”
― geetapress

“If you really know yourself, It is enough to live life to the fullest regardless of circumstances.”
― Shiva Negi

“No matter what others think, what you have experienced only matters in life.”
― Shiva Negi

“Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.”
― Sadhguru

“Action Yoga (Sonnet 1030)

If you love the idea of yoga,
Then be a karma yogi,
Without all that nonsense of,
“Be kind and you'll be treated kindly”.

Silently do your duty as a human being,
With zero expectation for praise and reward.
Kindness with expectation is kindness ruined,
True goodness expects nothing in return.

Karma means duty, yoga means union,
Lose yourself in goodness, and you'll find unity.
In this age of reason only yogi is the one,
Who is one with the world in humanitarian duty.

Silent kindness is sacred kindness.
The ancients called it karma yoga, I call it humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Instead of pouring milk on a lifeless stone, pour it in a hungry stomach.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“The real source of knowledge is action.”
― Shiva Negi

“The highest path to enlightenment is to be true to yourself and perform all actions in the vision of the soul; everything will fall into place.”
― Shiva Negi

“Enough bullshit. Just do righteous deeds, without harming anyone. This is karma enough. Then chill. Let things happen as they will. That is dharma enough.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas