YOGABHARATI

The essential nature of the creation is activity, as said by Krishna in Bhagwad Gita. There is a constant ongoing activity by human beings all the time and this activity is called ‘Karma’.  Some of the activities are essential for our survival and go on without our interference like breathing, blood circulation, heart beating, etc. These activities can be called Kriya as they are involuntary activities. On the other hand, the activities where we get involved can be termed as ‘Karma’. The activities that require interference only indicate that we have freedom in doing or non-doing them. Doing the action is called Karma and non-doing is called ‘Akarma’. This doing and non-doing are actually complementary to each other and not really opposed to each other. Sometimes we are in the phase of doing an action and other times we are in the phase of non-doing. We swing between Karma and Akarma phase. We can see that Karma is complementary to Akarma in our day-to-day life. Working during th...