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What is Karma Yoga?

Karma Yoga is, in short, the path of action: selfless service, and carrying out one’s duties without attachment to the result. It is love in action — giving love and service to others without wanting anything in return — and it can run through every moment and every relationship of daily life.

This branch of yoga rests on these principles:

• Conscious action and service without expectation: Service is given to others sincerely and lovingly, without personal gain, without conditions, and without expectation of what it may bring. The attention rests on the action itself rather than on its outcome or reward, which eases suffering and brings balance within.
• Freedom from the self and the ego: Karma Yoga is ground on which to step past the ego — pride and self-interest — and be released from its hold, so that a person can see themselves and others as one.
• Clearing past karma: It offers a way to cleanse and burn away past karma and unwholesome actions, or feelings of guilt, and to arrive at purity, peace, and freedom.

This is a way to undo the impressions you have gathered. If you can take part in any activity with joy, that is Karma Yoga. If you do it with great effort, only karma is created; no yoga will happen.