Karmic Over-Consumption Indirectly Proportional to Sustainability: Yoga—A Solution?

The credence in karmic law determines the characteristic of hierarchical consumerism of a nation. Over-consumerism is indirectly proportional to achieving sustainability. The research focuses on the ethics of Yoga that accelerate awareness concerning self and the universe thus aligning itself to the karma as enshrined in the Bhagwad Gita. The Yogic philosophy reinforces the behavioral aptitude of an individual. The article focuses on the interrelatedness of how the belief system in karmic law determines consumption and that individuals tend to overconsume when they suffer from weak in comparison to a strong karmic belief system. The findings indicate that imbibing yoga practice will prove to be an efficacious supplement to endorse the required consumption of an individual rather than over-consumption thus leading to sustainability from the lens of economic, ecological, and environmental perspectives. With greater practice in Yoga comes greater achievement of sustainability. This has been analyzed from the interpretation of karmic laws and ecological balance that was prevalent in the older times with special reference to India. The article also evaluates how the ethics of Yoga would lead to adherence to the principles imbibed in the context of sustainability principles existent in the International Forum.