• Negotiate with your dry cleaner for better prices. Politely mention your concerns around gender price differentials and ask that your cleaner offer comparable prices for comparable fabrics.

• Invest in a steamer. They are now widely available and priced affordably.

• Take advantage of savings and discount programs. Some dry cleaners offer discounts with pre-payment or a particular number of items.

• Pay cash. Unless you pay your credit card balance in full each month you incur additional costs in interest on top of your already exorbitant dry cleaning costs.

• Wear clothing items twice, instead of once before making a trip to cleaner.

Dry cleaning costs can run as high as several hundreds of dollars each year. These costs are inflated by gender bias. Fight back and keep more of your cash with a few of suggestions listed above.

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•Karma Yoga focuses on adherence to duty (dharma) while remaining detached from reward. Karma means to do, action, including those acts done by individual from birth to death. "Karma Yoga is selfless devotion of all inner as well as outer activities as a Sacrifice to Lord of all works, offered to eternal as Master of all soul’s energies and austerities," Bhagavad Gita says. Following practice of Karma yoga, an individual becomes true spiritual seeker and realizes his true nature as Atman and he lives in this world, works for this world and still stays untouched from grossness of mundane pleasures, thus doing immense good to society while on his path to salvation and spiritual freedom.

The Swami Sivananda Yoga Venanda Center sums up karma yoga into five actions:

Right Attitude It’s not what you do that counts, it’s attitude while doing it that determines if a job is a karma yoga job, i.e. a liberating job, or a binding job.

Right Motive Same as attitude. It is not what you do that counts but your real motive behind it.

Do your duty. Give your best. Give results.

•Jnana Yoga. This is most difficult path, requiring tremendous strength of will and intellect. Taking philosophy of Vedanta Jnana Yogi uses his mind to inquire into its own nature. We perceive space inside and outside a glass as different, just as we see ourselves as separate from God. Jnana Yoga leads devotee to experience his unity with God directly by breaking glass, dissolving veils of ignorance. Before practicing Jnana Yoga, aspirant needs to have integrated lessons of other yogic paths - for without selflessness and love of God, strength of body and mind, search for self-realization can become mere idle speculation.

Jnana yoga teaches that there are four means to salvation:

Viveka - Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between what is real/eternal (Brahman) and what is unreal/temporary (everything else in universe.)

Vairagya - Dispassion: After practice one should be able to "detach" themself from everything that is "temporary."

Shad-sampat - The 6 Virtues: Tranquility (control of mind), Dama (control of senses), Uparati (renunciation of activities that are not duties), Titiksha (endurance), Shraddha (faith), Samadhana (perfect concentration).

Mumukshutva - Intense longing for liberation from temporal limitations.