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It would&#8217;t bode well for my grade.<\/p>\n<p>So I shall extract something from the notes I created today.<\/p>\n<p>The topic I want to share today is Karma yoga. Karma yoga is simply this: it is to <em>joyfully<\/em> work for work itself, without thinking about the fruits of the work. The purpose of this practice is to bring the yogi into the here and now.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am supposed to write something. The problem is that my mind is quite still &#8211; no thoughts seem to be flowing through. There&#8217;s a possibility that I might have reached a state of Samadhi. Or that the time of the day is too Tamasic for me to make my mind work. 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