That's why the karma yoga principles are very important in the practices of yoga. You are not supposed to aspire and do. But that doesn't mean that you should not be inspired. You should be inspired but not aspiring. Because if you aspire, you are going to face the consequences, which are going to be very strong. If you succeed, you will get pride, arrogance and self-conceit, self-assertiveness, and look down upon others. This is what happens to all successful people; they look down upon others. They think others are creatures; they are so stubborn; they are obstinate. You can't expect a man who is very successful to change his thought-pattern or anything. So the success gives you all those cancers and the failure also gives you frustration, despair and desperateness, again that's a cancer.
And therefore, if you don't aspire, there is no question of success or failure. If you aspire, those things matter; if you don't aspire, they don't matter. That's why you should be doing the actions without desire and aspiration. These are the karma yoga principles. It is not idealism, it is not ideology, it is a reality; because if you do that way, then you have a steady mind, otherwise you will definitely have lots of oscillations in your mind. Karma yoga is not only good, but it is right. Not to aspire and work is not just good, it is not an ideology, it is right. So karma yoga is not an ideology at all. Karma yoga is a reality, because it is telling you something that is right and why it is right.
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