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GARLAND OF KARMA YOGA
the aspirant for Jnana Yoga People of active temperament should take up Karma Yoga Bhakti is also classified as mental Karma. It comes under Karma Yoga Raja Yoga is also a form of Bhakti Yoga. In Bhakti Yoga the devotee does absolute self-surrender to the Lord A Raja Yogi has subtle egoism The Bhakta depends upon the Lord He is extremely humble A Raja Yogi exerts and asserts He is of Swatantra type (independent) Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga are not incompatibles like acid and alkalı One can combine one-pointed devotion with Jnana Yoga The fruit of Bhakti Yoga is Jnana Highest love (Para Bhaktı) and Jnana are one. Perfect knowledge is love. Perfect love is knowledge
Sri Sankara, a Kevala Adwaita Jnani, was a great Bhakta of Lord Hari, Hara and Devi Jnana Dev of Alandı, Poona, a great Yogi, was a Bhakta of Lord Krishna Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa worshipped Kali and got Jnana through Swami Totapuri, his Adwaita Guru Lord Gouranga of Bengal was a great Adwaita Vedantic scholar and yet he danced in the streets and market-places singing the Names of Hari Appaya Dikshita, a famous Inani of Adaiyapalam, North Arcot District, the author of Siddhanta Lesha and various other Vedantic books, was a devotee of Lord Siva
It behoves therefore that Bhakti can be combined with much advantage with Jnana. Raja Yoga aims in controlling all thought-waves or mental modifica
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