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00:00I'm a butcher and I'm a karma yogi because I'm a very dedicated butcher.
00:06There have been instances of thugs and robbers and politicians calling themselves karma yogis.
00:12This is what I do and I do it openly, brazenly, intensely.
00:15I'm a karma yogi.
00:16You have convinced yourself that you are doing something selflessly, that's all.
00:20But the reality is very different.
00:22To those who think of karma yog and karma yog,
00:25when Sri Krishna talks of karma yog in the Bhagavad Gita,
00:28it simply means nishkaam karma yogi.
00:31Karma yogi does not mean doing anything with total immersion and intensity.
00:36No, that is not karma yogi.
00:38Karma yogi is getting into it because it is right.
00:41If I do something, there is always a reason, a desire.
00:45The selfless one really would have no reason and nobody within eager to check whether or not he is selfless.
00:52There has to be somebody, there has to be a self to declare itself as selfless, right?
00:56If you are calling yourself selfless, who is it making the declaration?
01:03The self.
01:04The self is saying I am?
01:06Nice.
01:06Nice.
01:07To those who think of karma yogi, and karma yogi, when Sri Krishna talks of karma yogi in the Bhagavad Gita,
01:21it simply means nishkaam karma yogi.
01:26Karma yogi does not mean doing anything with total immersion and intensity.
01:34No, that is not karma yogi.
01:35Karma yogi is getting into it because it is right.
01:45And because it is right, I don't care for the results.
01:49That's karma yogi.
01:52The first thing, karma yogi is always nishkaam karma yogi.
01:56Second thing, nishkaamta is not possible, desirelessness is not possible without encountering the falseness of the ego self.
02:11We deceive ourselves doubly.
02:17First of all, we think of karma yogi as being totally immersed in whatever one is doing.
02:26Right?
02:26I am a butcher, and I am a karma yogi because I am a very dedicated butcher.
02:34There have been instances of thugs and robbers and politicians calling themselves karma yogis.
02:47I am a karma yogi.
02:55This is what I do and I do it with total disdain for anything else.
03:04This is what I do and I do it openly, brazenly, intensely.
03:08So, I am a karma yogi.
03:10So, I am a karma yogi.
03:13No, that's not karma yogi.
03:16First thing, karma yogi means karma is nishkaam karma, not any action.
03:22Not any action.
03:28Action decoupled with concern for result is nishkaam karma.
03:36And here again, we can deceive ourselves because it is possible, very possible, to convince oneself that one doesn't care for the result.
03:48You know, I am bringing my kids up.
03:52And after that, I will leave them free.
03:54Once they are 16 or 18 or 25, I will leave them to fly free and I don't want to care.
04:00I don't want to impose myself on them.
04:03They will have all the freedom.
04:06And that emboldens me to call myself a nishkaam karma yogi because I am putting a lot of it into my kids
04:15without expecting results.
04:20No, sir.
04:21It's just lack of self-knowledge
04:23that causes you to declare all this.
04:27You do not know how deep expectations are embedded within.
04:37You have convinced yourself that you are doing something selflessly.
04:41That's all.
04:42But the reality is very different.
04:46The reality is that there is a definite desire for return.
04:48In fact, there is a definite desire to be called great also.
04:59And so you keep declaring to all and sundry that I do things selflessly.
05:04I am such a great person, you see.
05:05The desire is then not simple.
05:12It is actually complex and twofold.
05:14On one hand, you are cultivating desires like anybody else.
05:19On the other hand, you are so shrewd that you are declaring that there are no desires.
05:24And since there are no desires, can you please award me as the selfless father of the century?
05:35No, I am not asking for the award, but you know, just for the sake of the world in general.
05:41I am not asking for myself.
05:43I never eat even for myself.
05:45I eat for the sake of bacteria in my gut.
05:49I am feeding them.
05:50It's donation.
05:52Okay.
05:54Getting it?
06:00Karma Yoga is Nishkaam Karma Yoga.
06:03And you cannot be desireless or selfless if you do not know the self.
06:10Because the self is your default center.
06:15And that is the reason I am saying chapter 2 should have been sufficient.
06:19Because chapter 2 is Sankh Yoga.
06:21Sankh Yoga, those 72 master verses.
06:24You have taken you into yourself and nothing more is needed.
06:34Selfless action will follow.
06:36You won't even know you are selfless.
06:37In Lao Tzu style, if you know you are selfless, then you are not just selfish, but actually shrewd.
06:47The real selfless one would have no idea that he or she is selfless.
06:58Because selflessness is not an image.
07:00Selflessness is not an idea.
07:02How can the really selfless one declare himself as selfless?
07:06To call yourself, if I say I am wearing blue, it is because I already know of something called blue.
07:13And then matching the two, I will say this is blue.
07:17Selflessness is something totally new.
07:20Nothing to be matched with.
07:23And there is nobody to do the matching.
07:34If I do something, there is always a reason, a desire.
07:39The selfless one really would have no reason and nobody within eager to check whether or not he is selfless.
07:52There has to be somebody, there has to be a self to declare itself as selfless, right?
08:01If you are calling yourself selfless, who is it making the declaration?
08:08The self.
08:09The self is saying I am?
08:10Selfless.
08:12Nice.
08:15Getting it?
08:18You enter Nishkaam Karma Yoga.
08:20I will say you perform selfless action.
08:24And then from there, you will have to see that it is impossible to act selflessly without, without seeing what a complex thing, what a deceptive thing this self is.
08:43Let's start from there.
08:45It's an outside in approach now.
08:47You look at actions and you have, you have, you have, you have taken a vow.
08:56I will be selfless.
08:58Fine.
08:58Then, then observe your actions.
09:01You want to act selflessly?
09:02Observe your actions.
09:05And find yourself failing again and again.
09:09Observe your actions and see that you are not selfless.
09:12And when you will fail, then you will realize, what a thing this self is.
09:17You start from there.
09:19Outside in.
09:20From the action to the actor.
09:23From the action to the actor.
09:28What's the best way, however?
09:30Get to the actor straight away.
09:32Actor seen is actor purified.
09:39And once the actor is purified, what follows is action of the purest kind and the boldest kind, without any planning, without any effort and without any expectation.
09:59You will do it because you cannot now avoid doing it.
10:14You will do it not as an option, but as being.
10:20Not as one of the choices, but as the only option admissible.
10:36And then there, obviously, will be total dedication because you have no other road to go to.
10:43Because you have no other option to choose.
10:46Everything else has been discarded and this is the only thing that remains.
10:53There is no question of distraction or dissipation now.
10:58You will have to be 100%.
11:01And you won't even know you are 100%.
11:06You just are.
11:12Simple.
11:14A smooth flow.
11:16Unfortunately, we are so obsessed with action.
11:28That 95% of our questions are in a particular format.
11:37This is my situation.
11:39Tell me what to do.
11:43This is my situation.
11:44What action should I take?
11:49Right?
11:50Isn't this the way we present our questions to others and to ourselves?
11:56Right?
11:56What to do next?
11:58Where to go?
12:00What to choose?
12:05What to do seems to be the principal question facing us.
12:09And it is amusing.
12:11Because what to do is always in the context of a situation.
12:16This is the situation.
12:17Now what to do?
12:18Do we even understand the situation?
12:21The very description of the situation is flawed or narrow or shallow.
12:27And based on that description, we want to jump into some action.
12:39It's like entering the operation theater on false diagnosis.
12:43You don't even know what the situation really is like.
12:49But you are too eager to act.
12:53I have very few people ever asking me, can you help me understand this?
12:58We don't want to understand.
12:59We want to act.
13:00Why don't you want to understand?
13:04Because action is not really an enemy of the ego.
13:07Action is an extension of the ego.
13:10Understanding is enemy of the ego.
13:12So the ego wants to avoid understanding like death.
13:17The ego is only too happy acting.
13:20Do this.
13:21Go that side.
13:23Start rolling.
13:24Start jumping.
13:26Run hard.
13:27That doesn't really displease the ego.
13:32What displeases the ego is the mirror.
13:35Look within.
13:36Look at yourself.
13:38And then we start shivering.
13:43Therefore we never say, please help me understand.
13:45We always ask, can you prescribe an action?
13:49What to do?
13:50It's useless telling you what to do.
13:53Because you first of all do not know who you are and what the situation is in your context.
14:08In fact, not understanding the situation itself is the problem.
14:12This situation that you are calling as a problem is a problem exactly because it is not understood.
14:21But you won't still understand.
14:23You would say, no, no.
14:24The situation is how I have narrated it.
14:27I know the situation.
14:28The way I describe the situation is how the situation really is.
14:40Having said that, now tell me the solution.
14:43Now tell me the solution in terms of action.
14:46What do I do now?
14:47What do I do now?
14:48What do I do now?
14:49This is not a good question to ask.
14:51What do I do now?
14:52In fact, one of the things I am so frequently blamed for is, he never gives solutions.
15:03Never tells what to do.
15:06I don't want you to illuminate me.
15:09I have come to you just in two minutes, you tell me what should I do.
15:12And I will thank you for that.
15:16It's your life.
15:17And the doing will happen through your being.
15:24And if the being stands so corrupted, how can pure doing rise from there?
15:39You are rotten from the roots.
15:41And I want to address it there.
15:43But you are saying, no, let the roots remain there.
15:47Don't address the roots.
15:50Just spray something on the leaves.
15:57I can't do that.
16:01I don't have any prescribed action for your life.
16:05And if you want to remain the way you are,
16:09then you know your life much more intimately than I ever can.
16:14You do what you want to do.
16:18If you are to remain who you are, then you are the best judge.
16:22I am nobody.
16:22Who am I?
16:25How do I know what transpires in your office?
16:29How do I know what's it between you and your wife?
16:32How will I know that?
16:36Remaining who you are, you are the best judge.
16:38So, you decide.
16:40My job is to not to let you remain who you are.
16:45But you are saying you will remain who you are.
16:47And then I should tell the action.
16:48No.
16:48If you remain who you are, then you decide the action.
16:53Why should it be upon me?
17:01You will flow like a glacier does in the form of a river.
17:09The glacier you could call as the source.
17:12Understanding.
17:13And if that is there, then the river will ensue.
17:18There is no stopping the river now.
17:20Because the glacier is there.
17:23The glacier is expressing itself as the river.
17:27So, the glacier and the river are not two distinct things.
17:34Action is nothing.
17:36But understanding in movement.
17:41The river is nothing but the glacier in movement.
17:47Therefore, these two are not separate.
17:51Gyan and Karma.
17:55What's the path of knowledge or Adhyatma?
17:58That path says, know and let it flow.
18:02I know and it flows from there.
18:07Which direction?
18:08I don't care.
18:11Consequences?
18:12I again don't care.
18:15All that I care for is consciousness.
18:19I will not allow myself to breathe in darkness even for a second.
18:27It kills.
18:27It is suffocating.
18:32To be alive is to know.
18:36And that is all.
18:38After that, I don't need to have willpower to act.
18:41Willpower is for the stupid.
18:44Willpower is for those who don't understand but still want to do something with resolution.
18:50Knowledge.
18:56Gyan.
19:00Makes things like willpower sound very kiddish.
19:04You don't need willpower.
19:06You need understanding.
19:06Same for motivation.
19:18Motive is desire.
19:20You don't need motivation either.
19:25You need to understand.
19:27And what is faith?
19:28Faith is that if I know whatever follows will be auspicious.
19:39The action will be auspicious and the result of the action too will be auspicious.
19:44I will not try to preempt or prepare in advance or predict the result.
19:53No, I won't.
19:54No, I won't.
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