Sunday Talk: Open Forum on Karma Yoga, with Br. Shankara

No in-person attendance Sunday, 7/31

Due to the current rise in Covid-19 variant infections in the Atlanta area, we are asking that you not come to the Center in the morning, but to please join us on Zoom for the Sunday talk and discussion at 11am. 

Join us via Zoom by clicking here.

This Sunday at 11am, Br. Shankara will facilitate an Open Forum on Karma Yoga. Join us on Zoom, at 11:00am EDT and participate in the discussion! Click here for a one-page Open Forum Worksheet on Karma Yoga.
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July is a month for study of Karma Yoga, a spiritual path leading to the abandonment of selfishness. As a karma yogi, you practice offering your actions and their results, as well as your perceptions, thoughts, and feelings to the Divine Presence.

In many Ramakrishna Mission centers, this prayer is chanted by the congregation, in unison, at the end of a puja’s homa fire ceremony:

“No matter what I may have done, said or thought, in waking, dreaming or dreamless sleep, with my mind, my tongue, my hands or my other members, may all that be an offering to the Divine Presence.” 

Even before fully knowing this Presence, you hold firmly to the belief that the Presence is within each person or other living being that you interact with or serve. Working and abiding in this spirit, you are increasingly able to release attachment to your activities and their results. This yields the freedom and contentment promised by Karma Yoga.

“Even a little practice of this yoga will save you from the terrible wheel of rebirth and death …” — Sri Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 2

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