Talk:Types of Kriyamāna/Āgāmī Karm:Nitya Karm:Shārīra Karm
From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia
By Vishal Agarwal
Shārīra Karm refers to the mundane activities needed to maintain one’s body, such as eating, wearing appropriate clothing, bathing, and so on. There is a fine line between bare maintenance and accumulation.
Free of all expectations (in the results of karm), with his ātman and mind under control, having given up all desires to acquire possessions, performing bodily karm alone, he incurs no evil. Gita 4.21
For example, the Āyurveda Śāstra asks us to bathe regularly. If we do, no religious merit is credited. But if we don’t, it will result in illness.