dharma fits in. dharma and karma, two words you may have heard of in relationship to hinduism - but dharma is this kind of order to everything, the order to the cosmos, but also your obligations in life. now you want to burn up karma; then you do your dharma selflessly - you do it with nonattachment. first off, you're wise enough to learn from your experiences about where you should be in life, and then once having learned that, you follow that without attachment to the end results, either good or bad. that's the difficult point with karma is renunciation - you renounce the fruits of your efforts and you say, "i'm doing my duty, i'm following my dharma." you see this a lot in buddhism, too, also, when we get there. but that moves you along the path with equanimity so that you're not building up new karma - you're moving along the path, you're growing. and of course, through ultimately, through the various yoga practices, sometimes following a guru, devoting yourself to a guru, these are the kinds of