Gnani Yoga
Gnani yoga is a bit more like the scientific ideal without the materialistic bias. In Gnani, through contemplation of ancient wisdom, meditation and speculative exploration of our experiences of the world, one seeks to cultivate a mind free of distorted awareness. You achieve correctness and thus unity with the divine through growth in understanding.
The trick of all the paths is to find the middle, even the middle of extreme. The middle is the heart, and a path with heart is worthy. Your heart just needs to be in it, and for some of us our heart is with our mind and not our body.
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“The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.” Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, 1861-1941)
Gnani Path
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Questioning Path
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Mind Merged with Matter
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Growth in Understanding
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First Confront the Self
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Gnani Exercise
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Natural Starting Path
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Many Lives in a Single Life
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