karma-yoga

… most beloved of Hindu scriptures, is saturated with yoga: it teaches karma yoga , the yoga of selfless action, bhakti yoga , the yoga of devotion, and jnana yoga , the yoga of knowledge, and it describes seate…

It presents paths: karma yoga , the yoga of action; bhakti yoga , the yoga of devotion; jnana yoga , the yoga of knowledge; and dhyana yoga , the yoga of meditation, treated especially in its sixth chapter.

Early on, at 3.3, Krishna tells Arjuna that a twofold path was taught of old: jnana-yoga for the contemplatives, the people of the analytic temperament, and karma-yoga for the active, the people of the world.

The first is karma-yoga , the path of selfless action: doing one's duty without grasping at the fruit, so that action no longer binds.

…at ones: the path of action offered without attachment to its fruit ( karma yoga ), whose seed is its most quoted line, "your business is with action alone, not by any means with fruit"; the path of loving devo…

— Bhagavad Gītā 2.47 This is karma yoga , the discipline of action, and its inner key is nishkama karma , desireless action: you renounce the craving for the fruit, you do not renounce the work.

Karma yoga , the yoga of action, doing your duty without grasping at results.

This is the path the site treats as karma yoga, and its genius is that it requires no withdrawal from life.