Namaste.
Oh wow, and I thought I typed a lot! lol
Paragraphs would be nice though so I don't keep on crashing my mental car straight into that wall of text there.
I couldn't read all of it, because I need it to be broken down into mentally digestible 'chunks' but I'll say what I understand about Karma Yoga.
Even doing good or charitable acts in the name of compassion or love is not what Karma Yoga is all about - while ever there is any notion in your mind that you are 'being good' or 'doing good' or 'helping others' that's not Karma Yoga.
Karma Yoga is all about the non-doing OF doing, in that you are only the vessel through which the Grace of God works...manifests through and there's no notion of "I have done this" or "I am getting 'good karma' by doing this" and, as rough as it may sound, many acts of Divine Will can occur that are NOT all 'aesthetically pleasing' to others, but as long as the notion is there of 'Thy will be done' and not 'My will be done' and as long as the very act is surrendered to God, or the acknowledgment is made that you are only the instrument...the puppet and have no control/say over any eventuality which occurs...THAT is the whole essence of Karma Yoga.
If I am of the belief that I am typing this, with full attachment to ego and thinking "who will read this?" and "is it important?" and "I am telling/teaching?" and "people may respect/appreciate me for this"...then, that is EGO Yoga.
If the typing is done for the sake of typing...if that which is identified as "I" just observes what is being typed...if the act is surrendered to God and the bhava is "whatever happens, happens, even if nothing does, why should there be anything/anyone here who cares?" then that is Karma Yoga.
It is 'selfless action' and that not only includes the 'individual self' but also any sense of 'other'...or it is just God serving another aspect of God as a reflection of the expanded Consciousness which knows no separation or individual distinction and that is both the practice and outcome OF it.
God is the one to whom the offering is made, God is the offering itself and God is the one who is offering.
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