Is there a difference between seva and karma yoga?
Seva and karma yoga are two different things. Karma yoga is learning how to harmonize the day-to-day activities, behaviour and attitudes, and finding your inner peace while performing all your duties and activities. Seva is serving others with compassion and with the best you can give. Both seva and karma yoga are taught in the ashram. What is karma yoga? Karma means action, and everyone is subject to karma; one cannot live without activity. It is a process which is subtle, physical, and continuously happening, being performed by the senses, the mind, the emotions and also by the spirit. Yoga is harmony, integration, so when yoga is harmonizing and integrating all the dimensions of performance and action, that becomes karma yoga. What does it mean to harmonize and integrate the actions? We all perform actions for different reasons and each action is guided by an attitude. Two people can have different attitudes to the same job. One can think the job is a burden, the other that it is a
