Short/Aug 21, 2026/3 min
Finish the work. Then give.
Karma yoga is not emptying your pockets as a personality. It is completing the work, keeping what is yours, then giving because you chose to.

Karma yoga gets sold as a mood of sacrifice. The older instruction is dryer.
Do the work fully. Keep what you produce. Then, if you give, give because you can, not because a crowd took it first. Daan completes the philosophy. Forced redistribution is a different machine.
Agency first. Ownership of outcomes. The freedom to keep or share. That is how a house stays able to help the next house.
If the guilt creeps in when you finish something, read the four aims again. Prosperity under dharma is not a personality flaw.