29/06/2026
A Path to Freedom Through Action
There is a yoga of action, karma yoga, which says that we can become free through the path of action. Of course who becomes free if not the ego, coming into a space where it is in deeper surrender to Self, where it loses its selfishness, centred in its Source. So in the path of action, the ego has to go through transformation. You have an opportunity of transforming your ego every time you act....
You bind yourself to the karmic play through selfishness of the ego. So whenever you act out of selfishness, you are strengthening the bind that the ego is going to get involved in. When you create a desire for example and you become attached to it, that is a bind in the play that has to be fulfilled. When you become negative about something and you hold that attachment to the negative, that too has to be cleared up.
The idea is to be able to act unselfishly in the play. Is that a possibility, that you can act totally motivated, totally happy, totally excited, but unselfish? Easy to say but I am not sure if it is so easy to do because very subtly, whenever you act, you have an expectation; you are setting a condition. You see it; you give someone something and you expect something back in return. You do something good, you expect recognition or reward. And that is built in the society; we tend to recognize and reward so we are building egos. Can you give without the need for recognition and reward? Can you really do that at the most subtle level? And is it good to do? Is it wise to do? Is it the way that we can free ourselves from that bind in the karmic play?
Sri Vasudeva