Talk:Karma yoga

Alternative interpretation

The "alternative interpretation" at the bottom should probably go... Nightpotato (talk) 13:07, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Well, the English errors and overall writing could be fixed, and I appreciate the effort, but as it is, there are too many undefined foreign words and unexplained concepts to even know what it's talking about. It seems to center on this "Yagya", but even that's not explained, and it reads more like an exhortation to initiates, than an explanation for a general audience. 72.73.39.26 (talk) 19:03, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Language

Dear all,

could you please mention which language is the one between brackets at the beginning of the article, translating Karma Yoga in some Oriental alphabet, as it certainly is not Sanskrit, which is the first language from which the terms Karma and Yoga have been derived from?

Thank you in advance — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.45.249.144 (talk) 07:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Ritual action

@Ms Sarah Welch: isn't the primary meaning of "karma yoga" ritual action, as in opposition to the (Advaita) Vedantic knowledge? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 05:39, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

@JJ: In Vedic era non-Upanishadic texts, Karma indeed in many contexts refers to ritual action. After the influence of Upanishads, Buddhism and Jainism gained ground the term Karma is sometimes, while Kalpa and Kriya is often for rituals and religious ceremonies; in common era texts, Karma usually refers to non-ritual deeds (sometimes includes intent, thought). The origins of the term yoga are unclear (Sramanas likely), and the origins of the four types of yoga including karma-yoga, or more (tarka yoga, for example), is obscure as well. Karma-yoga, while in some contexts is rituals-related (but different from bhakti-yoga), became a complex non-rituals related concept. A good discussion of the four are in Fowler's The Bhagavad Gita translation and commentary published by Sussex Academic Press, chapter 3 if I recall. She discusses compares Jnana-yoga in chapter 2, and the other two after the karma-yoga chapter. Sargeant's The Bhagavad Gita, edited by Christopher Chapple, is another good source.

Here is a quick quote from Chapple's footnote from page 171: "Throughout the Bhagavad Gita, the word karma (action) is used in several senses. Sometimes as in here, it refers to religious action, the ritual action of the priest (...), elsewhere it refers to the warlike action proper to the warrior (...). At still other places it has the meaning of the sum of past actions (....)

Indeed you are right about Advaita's emphasis on "Jnana-yoga", but they too discuss and accept the other three main types of life yoga. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 14:31, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 14:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Minor Edit in Introduction Section

Hello :) I have edited the first introductory paragraph of the Karma Yoga article by removing the last line about Dharma. There was no reference to this line and it is misleading to have a comparison of Karma and Dharma in the first paragraph of an article about Karma Yoga because they are not actually 'opposite' or opposing. Possibly when this article is more developed and referenced better there could be a small section about Dharma towards the end of the article? I feel a lot more explaining about the concept of Karma Yoga in its pure form and concept and practise needs to be stated in the first part of the article before the concept of Dharma is mentioned especially for any audience reading the article whom has never come across the concept of Dharma. Thank you. TrainGem (talk) 01:07, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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