CORPORATE
WELLNESS
THROUGH
KARMA YOGA
EPGP, Qtr-VII
• Activity 2: Based on previous session’s
discussion, introspect, discuss, and create
Activity 2 methods to implement concepts of karma
yoga in personal life.
What propels us
into state of non-
awareness?
• Believing what our senses
report to us
• How often are they true?
• Is our perception and the
conclusions drawn out of
our perception always true?
• Correcting distorted perception,
conclusions can be reorganized.
Nature of three states
Wakeful Dream Deep Sleep
avaraṇa
(Tamas)
vikṣepa
(Rajas)
Perception and Identification
Real Self Wrongly Wrongly External
Identified Self Identified Self Objects
Consciousness Mind
/ SELF (Thinking & Feeling) Body
Non
Self Self
Summary
• Analysis of 3 states of Awareness: Wakeful, Dream, and Deep Sleep
• To appreciate what are variables (changing entities), and invariable (non-
changing) – to infer unreal and real.
• Inference 1: Anything that changes cannot be all-time reality; anything which
does not change is reality.
• Inference 2: Anything we attribute to be real, we are compulsively engrossed
in that plane of pursuit.
• Inference 3: Mind is capable of creating such a compulsive state of reality.
• Inference 4: Attribution of reality gives identification with that state.
• Unreal = Transactional reality (for practical purposes)
• Transactional reality strictly needs to follow the laws of transactional
plane/ state (W/D/S).
• But remember: That state (W/D/S) is not the permanent reality, it has
only transactional reality.
• What denies us this appreciation (W): Spending more time in wakeful state,
more congruence in wakeful state, etc.
• Once appreciated: We transact in that plane as actors, knowing our role given
our script. But not getting emotionally entangled with the experiences that
the state offer us. Ownership to Trusteeship.
• Wakeful state is also like a long-congruent dream, which gets
completed at death. Everyday sleep is a mini-rehearsal of death.
• Death = change of state.
• Practice of higher state of awareness beyond wakeful state: Watch the
observer (mind) – to discover the witnessing presence / Sakshi
Summary |
Perception and identification
• Problems with attributing reality and assuming identification:
• We take those problems to be real and suffer a “real suffering”.
• How the identification develops?
• Self/Consciousness Principle and the Mind and Body are in close proximity.
• They mutually transfer their properties to each other. [Hot Iron Ball]
• Mind and body assumes sentiency and on the Self/ Consciousness Principle the limitations of
mind and body are imposed.
• Self wrongly assumes the limitation of body and mind as our true limitations and develop
various phobias, fear, apprehension, complexes, etc. And we always feel that the body and
mind are real, and they are Sensient entities (real entities). Both are Wrong!
• Practice of deidentification:
• Remember Consciousness Principle/ Self and its true reality.
• Practice abiding in the Self as many times as possible (Observing thoughts and experiencing
“witnessing Self”/ “Sense of being”).
• Consider waking state transactions as transactional reality and try to play its role as an actor.
[Analogy of Screen and Movie]
Witnessing Self - sākṣī
Importance of directed awareness
Activity
Single Thought
Powered thoughts
Evolutio Strong emotion
n of
Leads to Identification
mind
Attachment
Inability to withdraw (pain)
How to translate into daily
practice: Karma Yoga
Attachment = Identification
Misery
Identification = Lack of Awareness
Lack
Attachment of Awareness = Rajas + Tamas
Awareness = Sattva
Spiritualizing Everyday
• īśvarapraṇidhānam (surrender)
• Higher principle – Consciousness
• Understand the higher order
• Trusteeship
• Detachement
• cittaprasādanam (Contentment with equanimity)
• Taking responsibility for the situations that happen to us
• Unconditional acceptance
Managing challenging emotions |
pratipakṣa-bhāvanam
• vitarkabādhane pratipakṣabhāvanam (Patanjali Yoga Sutras: 2.33)
• maitrī karuṇā muditopekṣāṇāṃsukhaduḥkha puṇyāpuṇyaviṣayāṇāṃ bhāvanātaḥ
cittaprasādanam (Patanjali Yoga Sutras: 1.33)
Dimension Conflicting Thoughts Opposing Thoughts
Sukha Maitrī
(happiness) (friendship)
Emotional Self
Duḥkha Karuṇā
(misery) (compassion with concern)
Puṇya Muditā
(virtue) (delight)
Rational Self Upekṣā
āpuṇya (equanimity with
(vice) understanding)
