Karma is of three kinds
(kAmya) Karma – Action rooted in selfishness
viKarma – Actions that are evil/negative/prohibited
aKarma – Inaction-in-Action (Also called Selfless Action)
Some people define viKarma and aKarma the other way around – but the idea is the takeaway)So those actions that we carry out without any selfish motives are aKarma. The desire to engage in aKarma is ‘not prohibited’ by the Upanishads nor is it undesirable. Hence ‘withdrawal of the mind’ does not imply desireless-ness and nor does it mean ‘inaction’.Mind – by its very definition implies ‘a state of flow of thoughts’. In other words, thoughts in a’ state of flow’ is called Mind! Thoughts ‘stored’ is called memory. Controlling the state of flow of thoughts to conform to the divine design of ‘coexistence and expansion’ is in itself the withdrawal that Bhagavad-Gita expounds. Withdrawal implies the retracting of thoughts from selfish intentions.
