Niskama karma (Hinduism, Yoga)

Under the influence of kama (personal desire), ordinary actions are performed which result in the building up of a personal karma. This is because such actions are performed while identifying with the ego, seeking fulfilment of desires, and result in both pleasurable and painful experience. However, when the person completely dissociates himself from the ego and performs actions while identifying completely with the Supreme Spirit working through the ego, then such actions without desire, niskama, produce no more karma, despite possibly being engaged in the affairs of the world. Consciously identifying with the divine, with no taint of personal motive, no more karma being formed, it remains to work off karma or sanskaras previously accumulated.