The trancendental way.
In His Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna gives His trancendental analysis of the workings of karma, jnana , astanga, and Bhakti yoga . When Bhakti is added, everything becomes blissful and knowledgeable . In other words, everything can be understood in the right light, and the trancendental connections between all yoga systems become apparent. Krishna says one who knows the path jnana and karma leads to the same result is knowledgeable . This is because if one acts dutifully in karmic duties as given in theological cultures, connections with Divinity naturally awaken . Its Divinity Himself, who brings forth within the Vedas the process for gainfully living, and that includes systematic fulfilled lives accompanied by knowledge and detachment. Karma, when dutifully carried out, leads inevitably to degrees of karma yoga as knowledge of God and sacrifice will be naturally increased by good pious activities. Karma yoga in its beginnings leads to increased levels of Bhakti in the association and guidance of saints and godly persons , and such association naturally leads to increased levels of jnana , i.e., knowing the purposes of the Vedas and knowing how to please Divinity . Knowing who Krishna is and what Krishna’s purposes are is called Vedic wisdom.There is Krishna along with His Saktis or energies, both Krishna and His energies should be understood along with the the recent revelations of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu who taught the simultaneously and inconceivably position of oneness and differences between all of Krishna’s energies to Himself.
Those who , because of previous “jnana sukriti ” live lives with tendencies for jnana or knowledge, and they can , in the association of saints , become fully aware of the real purposes of knowledge which is to know that all kinds of thinking processes and intellectualism should lead to purer actions, or karma yoga , that indirectly please Divinity . In the case of much high levels of jnana , the action is called niskama karma yoga and brings one even closer to Krishna. In both cases, karma or jnana yogas leads one to pure Bhakti , without Bhakti karma and jnana yoga will not progress far or fast , it’s progressive but only by association of the pure Bhaktas and also through sastra sanga by their grace . The addition of Bhakti leads to increased hearing and chanting about Krishna and increased levels of pure meditations centred exclusively on Radha Krishna and all the activities of Their friends and family members , this could be termed as ” pure Astanga yoga ” . Srila Rupa Goswami gives the grades of meditations starting with smaranam . The windows to the spiritual world are there within the litratures of the Goswami’s who Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally taught . Everything is made clear within the litratures of the Goswami’s and by the param para acaryas who follow the Goswami’s. Sadhu sanga and sastra sanga, along with service with devotion, is the clear path laid out , the chanting of the names of God are the means to understand everything .
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