6 Degrees and 3 Karma Yoga Paths — Spirit Meaning

Success in performing actions or gaining knowledge on the path to abandon depends completely on the supporting practices, also known as renunciation practices, that you need to follow while you’re on the journey.

If one does not follow the precepts of spirituality with devotion, they completely render the precepts ineffective, even if one performs them.

This topic addresses the necessity of observing the six stages of renunciation.

They are:

(1) Total renunciation of forbidden actions.

(2) Renunciation of actions motivated by desire.

(3) Complete renunciation of thirst for worldly objects.

(4) Renunciation of the practice of accepting services from others for selfish motives.

(5) Absolute renunciation of indolence and the desire for fruits concerning one’s duties.

(6) Complete renunciation of the sense of mine and thine.

(1) Complete renunciation of prohibited actions

One should completely abstain from shameful actions in thought, word, and deed; actions forbidden in the Vedic scriptures such as theft, adultery, cheating, spreading lies, greed, duplicity, taking forbidden…