55 Quotes About Karma-yoga

Life is meant for attaining self-knowledge in God-realization; He who does not know himself is ignorant and his life is in vain.

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.

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.

The path of Karma-yoga leads directly to self-realization, only people do not have the patience to practice it.

Know yourself who I really am, this will complete your life, and there is no other way.

The knower of the self remains soul-centred, transcends life and becomes immortal.

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)

Unless you attain self-knowledge, your life is meaningless and remains incomplete.

Surrender And You Will Get It.