Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong
The meaning of Karma stands distorted by centuries of misplaced fictionalization. Karma remains a disquieting enigma to the few who refuse to accept compromised notions. This book is for them. If to live rightly is to act rightly, what then is right action? This has tormented us since ages. The scriptures answer this, but without stooping from their cryptic heights. Nor do they advise how their ancient words apply to the present. Acharya Prashant's work provides the missing link. He imparts clarity, leaving nothing to conjecture or belief. The book demolishes the myths surrounding action and decision by bringing to focus the actor, rather than action. When we ask, 'What to do?', the book handholds us into 'Who is the doer? What does he want from the deed?' This shift provides the solutions, and finally the dissolution of the question. Acharya Prashant demolishes ubiquitous beliefs and outdated notions to reveal some simple truths. If you can challenge the tyrannies of tradition and greet the naked truth, you will love this book
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Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong
The meaning of Karma stands distorted by centuries of misplaced fictionalization. Karma remains a disquieting enigma to the few who refuse to accept compromised notions. This book is for them. If to live rightly is to act rightly, what then is right action? This has tormented us since ages. The scriptures answer this, but without stooping from their cryptic heights. Nor do they advise how their ancient words apply to the present. Acharya Prashant's work provides the missing link. He imparts clarity, leaving nothing to conjecture or belief. The book demolishes the myths surrounding action and decision by bringing to focus the actor, rather than action. When we ask, 'What to do?', the book handholds us into 'Who is the doer? What does he want from the deed?' This shift provides the solutions, and finally the dissolution of the question. Acharya Prashant demolishes ubiquitous beliefs and outdated notions to reveal some simple truths. If you can challenge the tyrannies of tradition and greet the naked truth, you will love this book
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Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong

Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong

by Acharya Prashant
Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong

Karma: Why Everything You Know About It Is Wrong

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The meaning of Karma stands distorted by centuries of misplaced fictionalization. Karma remains a disquieting enigma to the few who refuse to accept compromised notions. This book is for them. If to live rightly is to act rightly, what then is right action? This has tormented us since ages. The scriptures answer this, but without stooping from their cryptic heights. Nor do they advise how their ancient words apply to the present. Acharya Prashant's work provides the missing link. He imparts clarity, leaving nothing to conjecture or belief. The book demolishes the myths surrounding action and decision by bringing to focus the actor, rather than action. When we ask, 'What to do?', the book handholds us into 'Who is the doer? What does he want from the deed?' This shift provides the solutions, and finally the dissolution of the question. Acharya Prashant demolishes ubiquitous beliefs and outdated notions to reveal some simple truths. If you can challenge the tyrannies of tradition and greet the naked truth, you will love this book

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143453314
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd
Publication date: 11/01/2021
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Acharya Prashant is an emerging champion of socio-spiritual awakening in the world today. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad and a former civil services officer, he is an acclaimed Vedanta philosopher. Apart from that he wears various hats: a science activist, a campaigner against superstition, a veganism promoter, an environmental activist and a champion of essential human freedom.

Table of Contents

About the Book ix

Acharya Prashant xiii

Part I How to Choose the Right Action?

1 What Is a Right Decision? 3

2 When to Think and When to Act? 6

3 The Right Action Looks Strange, the Wrong One Looks Comfortable 8

4 Spontaneous, or Carried Away? 13

5 How to Know What One Must Do? 20

6 Our Decisions Usually Come from the Animal Within 29

7 The Only Action That Helps You Is That Which Helps Others 39

8 Forget Winning, First Choose the Right Battle 44

9 Sometimes the Right Action Appears Like Inaction 50

Part II Will the Right Action Give the Right Result?

10 If You Are Unable to be Fully Involved in Your Task 55

11 In Detachment, Right and Vigorous Action Happens 59

12 How to Balance Detachment and Action? 62

13 How to Bring Spontaneity to Actions? 68

14 The Right Action Is Its Own Reward 79

15 If Bad Karma Gets a Bad Reward, Why Do We Still Act Badly? 86

16 In the Right Battle, Defeat Is Victory 90

17 What Is Desireless Action? 100

18 What Is One's Real Duty? 105

Part III Action that Reforms the Actor

19 What Matters More: The Action or the Actor? 115

20 The Actor Is the Action 118

21 The Gap between Understanding and Action 122

22 Why Doesn't the Law of Karma Apply to Animals? 126

23 If One Is Brahman, Why Does One Work? 129

24 Karma or Coincidence? 131

25 What Is Hard Work in Spiritual Terms? 134

26 Past-Life Karma, Goal of Life, and Liberation 139

Part IV What Do the Scriptures Say?

27 The Secret of Right Action 149

28 The Right Action for You Depends on Your Conditioning 157

29 Is It Possible to Work Without Expecting Results? 169

30 Bonded Work Is Compensation, Free Work Is Compassion 179

31 The Fine Line between Sattvika and Tamasika Action 187

32 Which Actions Must One Never Renounce? 197

33 How to Submit One's Actions to Truth? 205

34 Action without Attachment Is Yoga 213

35 You, as the Doer, Are Unnecessary 221

36 What Is Action, What Is Non-action? 229

37 Doership Is Bondage 245

38 Live Long Enough to Reach the Right Place 254

39 How to Decide How Much to Consume? 260

40 Remember the Deed! Remember the Deed! 272

PrashantAdvait Foundation 279

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