Yoga Course 120. Karma yoga is an extremely interesting yoga, extremely practical, although at first glance it seems to be not quite yoga in the usual sense. There are no physical exercises here, such as we don’t stand on our heads. The term karma is now quite common in the West, but as often happens, having come to us from the East, it acquired its own meaning, which no longer has any relation to the true meaning of this word, the one that was implied in the teachings in the East, including in the teachings of yoga. Karma yoga says that each of you has your living conditions, or our karma. The conditions were formed by some actions that we did before in the past. That is, what you have now is not accidental, but it is the product of your previous actions. And when we say the word karma, we must understand that first of all, the word karma means the law of cause and effect.