What is Knowledge : Ch-5-22.

Chapter 5: Maintaining One's Position-22.

You have heard that there is a system of yoga called karma – karma yoga.

Karma yoga means yoga of action.

Your performances, your deeds, your operations, and whatever you seem to be busy with, become a yoga if these performances are the emanations of the balanced position that you are maintaining because, as you know, what you are doing is actually an expression of what you really are inside.

It is not possible to be honest to one's own self by doing what is not one's own essential nature.

Your action and speech are an expression of the contents of your own inner personality.

Thus, the yoga exercise as a sort of activity that is visible to the eyes is a yoga, no doubt, because it is, at once, an internal position that is maintained simultaneously together with this external performance, by simultaneously maintaining a consciousness of your requirements in the light of the law of the universe.


Yoga is a universal science. It is not a science of the laboratory or the classroom.

It is not something that you do invisibly, unknown to people.

There is no such thing as secret yoga. It is a public performance, in the sense that every inch in the universe will know what you are doing, just as the whole body will know what is happening to any part of the body.

The consciousness of your being inseparably related to a larger operation of forces in the universe is important if your yoga exercises are to become meaningful and fruitful.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....