
Karma Yoga is the discipline of right action without attachment to outcome.
It is not passivity. It is precision.
The work still gets done. Effort is still applied. Skill still matters.
What drops away is the ego’s demand for reward, recognition, or control.
In Karma Yoga, action is treated as offering, not leverage.
Core principles
Action over rumination
You act because action is required, not because conditions feel perfect.
Detachment from results
Outcomes are feedback, not identity. Success and failure do not define the self.
Duty aligned with capacity
You do the work in front of you, at the level you are capable of today.
Purification through work
Ordinary tasks become training when performed with attention and integrity.
Ego minimization, not ego destruction
The self is not erased. It is put in its proper place.
Inner posture
I am responsible for my actions.
I am not entitled to outcomes.
I bring care, not craving.
I leave the rest to the field.
Why it matters
Karma Yoga stabilizes the nervous system.
It prevents burnout caused by over-identification with results.
It turns life itself into practice, not something you escape to meditate.
This is not spiritual productivity.
This is clean action.