Karma Yoga is the Highest Practice - Shunyamurti Questions & Answers

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Description: The highest and most important practice is karma yoga, meaning that we lead an active life of service to God, community, and world while in full realization that all is consciousness, nothing is outside consciousness, and thus no one is working and nothing is happening-only the manifestation of the free Self-expression of the Supreme Intelligence.
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[To All Who Listen to Shunyamurti's Teachings: Thank you all for your serious consideration of these ideas, which are intended to help you live a more coherent, peaceful, creative, compassionate, and productive life, and to be of service to the welfare of our world. We understand that our approach to existential concerns is not for everyone. We honor your right to disagree with these ideas and to stop listening if you do not like them. We gladly post comments with disagreements, if they are stated in a positive and mature manner, that allows civilized discourse about your own contrary ideas, and which may spark further useful and profound thought about the important issues that the teachings raise. If there are sincere questions about the teachings, or misunderstandings that can be clarified, Shunyamurti is always ready and willing to respond with helpful elaborations and even to cite texts and other authors whose writings may be of assistance to serious seekers. But comments that are simply angry and insulting, immature and unreasonable, will be removed because they undermine the educational and inspirational purpose of this project. Those who have questions that are more personal should write us in a private email and one of the teachers in our wisdom school will respond in the same way, or if the question is a very subtle or difficult one and requires a response from Shunyamurti, we will forward it to him on your behalf, and when he can, he will respond personally. By the way, we want to clarify that these teachings are new, they are not simply a repetition of old traditional teachings, but integrate current thought in the sciences, psychology, cultural studies, and philosophy. Shunyamurti speaks from his own realizations and deep clinical experience as a healer.]
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@PhillipFreeman-yl9yq Ай бұрын

So far, I believe all of Shunyamurti teachings can be summarized into 1 sentence. If you want to enter the kingdom of heaven, you have to let go of earthy positions, and want God's will with all your heart, mind, and soul. Another way of phrasing it would be, if you want to get out of the re-incarnation wheel, you have to let go of all egotistical fantasy constructs found on this planet, and connect with God's power. Shorter to the point, "your will be done, and not mine". And to those teachings I am eternally grateful.

@WeAreAllOneNature Ай бұрын

Nice. Some would say that 'wanting God's will' prevents entry to heaven because 'wanting' is something that is done by the ego. Perhaps offering your life up to be used by God's will is nearer the mark - as you later said: ''your will... not mine''.

@yvonnepeters1914 Ай бұрын

That's the whole key of Advaita. NOT TWO. Separation says "not my Will, but thy will be done. "

@jmac4952 Ай бұрын

Or let go of the possessor of earthly possessions. Let go of the one who has egotistical fantasies.

@JosephHughes-do3zg Ай бұрын

Yes, and the God's will is the true Self's will, it is the perfect plan for you, but the "ego" is one's current identity of limitation, and because it wants to continue to exist as an "identity", even though it isn't real, it will defend it's own existence with fear, which paralyses and prevents one from further growth.

@SchoolOfLifeEducation Ай бұрын

You clearly haven’t been paying attention. There is no such thing as the kingdom of heaven. We are simply god’s consciousness having a human experience. Do good or do bad you are just playing your part in god’s movie so to say.

@mrchristopher3993 Ай бұрын

Found joy in service to all, can be such beautiful bliss.

@bilo84-qc6ux Ай бұрын

Loving the feather 😁 Much love n gratitude 🙇🏻‍♂️💚

@mirian593 Ай бұрын

You are my teacher, thank you for all the effort you put in to spread the word of peace. I love you ❤.

@Beezmilk Ай бұрын

His way of describing how the go thinks and acts is so amazingly accurate. Often times when i watch a teaching of his he'll speak about the ego in a way that directly relates to what ive been dealing with. Thank you for your priceless wisdom good sir

@dobmaster8208 Ай бұрын

Joy is the practice❤

@S3RAVA3LM Ай бұрын

Joy is nice feeling and feelings don't get you there. Ritual is practice, it immerses one, and if one tries only to cleave to joy the counteract of grief is always right behind following its prey.

@evangelospapagiannis226 Ай бұрын

Joy is when you have stopped from any practice and no longer coming or going but being the irrelevant subject object that does not fit anywhere anymore.

@nataliaprodan9335 Ай бұрын

Thank you ❤

@yanalalaqabaniempoweredsel7830 Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@tweeniebee3032 Ай бұрын

That was just lovely dear sir🙏

@Jay-os2vl Ай бұрын

Id like to flat line the mind regardless of service as the desire to do is exausted from measuring up. Ive spent a significant amount of time alone as a egoic Christian prior to dropping the separate self. Chop wood, carry water, while focusing inward. The dread of losing an identity to realize non dual seems a necessary risk. I have great appreciation for Satyoga being able to address ones dream setting per each stage of vibrational cognition. 🌄

@Jay-os2vl Ай бұрын

Maintaining Awareness of the dream during work or talking with others is a tacit bugaboo. Half hour goes by puttsing and I forgot no object, just sensing and perceive. Mayas draw with supposed others outward fears cause one to dismiss there reality as an NPC petty tyrant test

@user-wl5jk2rn6n Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏 ❤

@HillbillyHippyOG Ай бұрын

🙏

@maha77 Ай бұрын

As always, utterly astounding, pure knowledge. Concise. I am however, distracted by that feather, guess I need to deepen my practice!

@bronsonmcnulty1110 Ай бұрын

Feather bound.....

@quantum_man Ай бұрын

Absolutely Love this advice!!! It resonates big time.

@olivierbolton8683 Ай бұрын

Always snippets of pure joy!

@didymos2200 Ай бұрын

I love every word you are speaking ❤🔥

@stewartthomas2642 Ай бұрын

Love your stuff kick on love it ❤️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍

@nikkygovier3783 Ай бұрын

More wise, succinct words expressing truth. Thank you 🙏 I feel blessed that I have been a lucid dreamer all my life, as I have been taught so much through my dreams and some have been truly profound and powerful. I have also had OBE's on several occasions throughout my life which means that I have never struggled to understand the concept of being a spiritual being /essence of God. It must be so much harder for people who don't remember their dreams, or haven't experienced alternate states of consciousness.

@angelabuckley7576 Ай бұрын

❤

@thoughtfog Ай бұрын

🛸

@judithsmorti4306 Ай бұрын

❤✨

@yvonnepeters1914 Ай бұрын

I love you wearing your feather. Maybe we should call you Chief Shun. 😊 ❤😘 And i never wanted a Gold Star btw. And as SatGurunath would say, "we got to eat the humble pie. " 😃

@jonmustang Ай бұрын

Respectfully disagree. I don't think Ramana said that Karma yoga was our function. I think he more often said that Self realization is our primary function, that real Bhakti is love of the Self, and that whatever our body-self is destined to do will flow best from that realization without effort. I think it's important to confront how many spiritual seekers have "people pleasing" egos and that service to others can wind up being another way that the ego runs away form the Self and externalizes reality. Service can wind up being conceptual rather than authentic in those cases. Some quotes to illustrate the difference between someone trying to be saintly based on following a concept versus actually saintly realization... Mother Teresa: "There is so much contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God, so deep that it is painful, a suffering continual, and yet not wanted by God, repulsed, empty, no faith, no love, no zeal," she wrote. "Souls hold no attraction. Heaven means nothing, to me it looks like an empty place. The thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God." "Pray for me please that I keep smiling at him in spite of everything." Nisagaddata: "That which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge. Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self- knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear, and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only self- realization can break it." - - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

@satyogainstitute Ай бұрын

Shunyamurti's reply: I agree with your initial statement completely, as follows: “Self-realization is our primary function, that real Bhakti is love of the Self, and that whatever our body-self is destined to do will flow best from that realization without effort.” Where I disagree is that I would define that statement as expressing the essence of karma yoga.

@jmac4952 Ай бұрын

The self is always realized. It's what we are.

@jonmustang Ай бұрын

@@satyogainstitute Understood, and thank you for replying, though I'm still questioning the order of operations, so to speak. In the world of seekers and healers, I've met a disproportionate number of beings whose egos are in self-abandonment patterns and codependency. They're already "selfless," but not in a good way. They actually never built up a healthy "I am" sense of ego in the first place, so they tend to abandon themselves for the sake of others. For this ego type, which I think is very common in the spiritual community, the "virtue is not genuine" as Nisargaddata said, so they're even more in despair because they've been told they'd feel good if they do nice things for others... but they feel worse in because they don't. For those folks, I find that somehow guiding them back to their heart, the original sense of "I am" and showing them how to honor and love that pure individuality is the most effective. Service to others doesn't seem to help them as much. Karma yoga strikes me as something that would work well for someone who has already developed a full sense of "I am" and is ready to relinquish it.

@codymarch164 Ай бұрын

Bhagvad Gita, chp 5 Yoga of action is superior to yoga of knowledge. Both sankhyayoga and karmaypga reach the same goal. Without karmayoga sankhyayoga i.e., renunciation of doership in relation to all activities of mind body is difficult to accomplish; whereas the karmayogi who keeps his mind fix on God, reaches brahma in no time. I'm quite sure karma yoga is prerequisite and prior before all other methods. To even discern the Self from non self is an act of karmayoga. To fix oneself on the Atman, too, is karmayoga.

@jmac4952 Ай бұрын

If realization was new it would not be eternal.

@S3RAVA3LM Ай бұрын

This 'ultimate consciousness' thing is erroneous. The translators of the sanskrit didn't know what word to use for turiya. It's not consciousness. Consciousness arises and ends with the body. Consciousness is used only as a predicate for Brahman - even then what is actually being spoken of. Spirituality today is like politics: tell people what they want to hear and it's business as usual.