The steps to turning all works into karmayoga may be summarised as below.
1. Remember the Divine at the beginning of whatever you have undertaken to do (for desire or any other reason), offer it to the Divine, share your concerns and desires including wish for success to the Divine, pray that the Divine be with you during the work.
2. Offer gratitude at the end of the work.
3. Remember the Mother in-between as often as you can.
4. Initially this will happen only for few works that you consider important. Later extend it to everything bathing, sleeping, waking, eating, meeting friends and family.
5. Slowly a state of inner Remembrance will develop building a background of yogic consciousness and the other one the surface. This will help you discover the inner motives of your actions. Start offering them to the Mother with a prayer to change.
6. Practice nishkama. Karma and equanimity in the face of success and failure, gain and loss offering it to the Mother.
7. Finally offer the initiating impulse to the Mother. Whatever be the outer reason for the work do it in the spirit of Her Service. It means doing the work no more for pleasing oneself or others but to please the Divine, as Her Worship and Service. It is a change of attitude which should get reflected in the work which being the Mother’s Work, you will naturally do your best, strive for excellence in it as Her representative, doing it with joy and peace that comes naturally with this change of attitude.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
