Swami Venkatesananda’s Karma Yoga Talks
Karma Yoga Talks
This series of talks was given at Yasodhara Ashram in British Columbia in the Spring of 1975, following the Hatha Yoga Talks, and was the second part of the (approximately) one hundred hour lecture series on Swami Venkatesananda regarded as Swami Sivananda’s Integral Yoga. This section is entitled “The Karma Yoga Talks.”
The talks begin with an important reminder, that yoga is not something which we do. Certainly people ask the question: If I practice Hatha Yoga, what must I do? If I practice Karma Yoga, what must I do? If I practice Bhakti, or Raja, or Jnana, what must I do? Swami Venkatesananda reminds us early on in these talks, that such questions miss the mark if we are to uncover the truth concerning yoga. The statement that yoga is not something we do may prove all the more confusing when applied to Karma Yoga, the so called “yoga of action,” but it’s a puzzle that can yield some insight, and, therefore, a useful place to renew our exploration of what yoga is and what it means to be a yogi.
The full lectures and many more interesting lectures and audio are available at http://www.venkatesananda.org/
