5.1 Path of Action (Karma Yoga)

• Meaning of Karma Yoga as the path of selfless action
• Duties and roles at home and in school: like/dislike list and priority by importance
• Daily actions assessed with peers in the light of Karma Yoga
• Sister Nivedita: Vivekananda's disciple; education and service in India
• Rishabhdev (Rishabh dev): first Tirthankara; karma-bhumi and righteous work
• Buddhaghosha (Buddhaghosa): Pali commentator; Visuddhimagga as dhamma-dana
• Bibi Sundari Ji: KICD Sikh practitioner; seva and langar, with Mata Khivi as the labelled classic of the kitchen
• Scriptural guidance on Karma Yoga across the four HRE faiths
• Selfless service (seva) in Kenyan school and community, including peers with diverse needs

• examine actions that enable the learner to understand Karma Yoga
• summarise key events of the selected prominent practitioners of Karma Yoga for social welfare
• implement Karma Yoga for self-improvement
• recognise the essence of Karma Yoga for better understanding

“How do the lives of practitioners of Karma Yoga inspire us?”

“Why do we need to practise Karma Yoga?”

“How do different scriptures guide us on Karma Yoga?”

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1. What Karma Yoga is in Grade 8
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   Define Karma Yoga as the path of selfless action, recap Grade 7 Yog, and map the four Grade 8 practitioners.
2. Duties at home and school: the list
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   Make a full list of roles at home and school, divide them into like and dislike, and rank them by importance.
3. Assessing daily actions with peers
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   Use peer discussion to test whether everyday acts are Karma Yoga, show, skip or harm.
4. Selfless action: the essence of Karma Yoga
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   State nishkama karma in received Gita sense and explain why Grade 8 must practise, not only admire, selfless action.
5. Sister Nivedita: who she is
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Place Sister Nivedita as Margaret Noble of Ireland, disciple of Swami Vivekananda, named the Dedicated One.
6. Sister Nivedita: school, plague and service
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   Summarise key events of Nivedita's Karma Yoga: the girls' school, plague nursing in 1899, and famine relief without show.
7. Rishabhdev: the first Tirthankara
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Identify Rishabhdev (Adinatha) as the first Tirthankara, born of Nabhi and Marudevi, king before he became a ford-maker.
8. Rishabhdev and the age of action
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   Explain karma-bhumi: Rishabhdev taught agriculture, crafts and honest livelihood, then renounced without despising work.
9. Buddhaghosha: who he is
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Place Buddhaghosha as a fifth-century Buddhist scholar who went to the Mahavihara in Sri Lanka to work in Pali.
10. Buddhaghosha: Visuddhimagga as a gift
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Summarise the Visuddhimagga as Path of Purification ordered as sila, samadhi and panna, offered as dhamma-dana.
11. Bibi Sundari Ji and Sikh seva
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Keep the KICD name Bibi Sundari Ji, teach Sikh seva through langar, and label Mata Sundari and Mata Khivi with care.
12. How scriptures guide Karma Yoga
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Select received teachings from the four HRE faiths that guide selfless action, without inventing verses.
13. Kenyan seva: implement Karma Yoga
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Plan and begin selfless service at school and in the community, including assistance for learners with diverse needs.
14. Four lives, one path of action
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Summarise key events of the four practitioners, present benefits of selfless service, and finish role-play and implementation evidence.