Karma-yoga

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 218 words | Copyright

Karma-yoga. One of the four main types of yoga in Hinduism, leading to union with God. It consists of detachment, not from action as such, but from the fruits of all action, offering them instead as a sacrifice to God.

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