To qualify an entrance exam, and work towards it, without thinking of the results, that’s not what Karma Yoga is. Karma Yoga is not about setting tangible worldly targets and going after them. It’s a moment-to-moment thing in which you are very conscious whether the objective of your action is personal ingratiation or larger welfare. You are acting all the time, you are not acting merely when you act towards a distant and a larger cause.
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Questioner: Sir, my question is regarding ‘Karma'. I have achieved, some things like I started reading Bhagavad Gita just two years ago and following the philosophy I have achieved quite a lot. Whenever I followed the principles of Karma Yoga — doing duty equipoised, I have achieved it.
Acharya Prashant: What did you say? What did you say, whenever you have followed the principles of Karma Yoga..
Questioner: I have achieved what I set out. But there was the goal, I have not set the goal but I have just worked towards it as through the principles that are in the Gita, that’s it. Equipoised, completely without the attachment to goals and results that is.
Acharya Prashant: So what have you achieved if there were no goals?
