What
exactly is Jnana Yoga? You may have heard Jnana Yoga is "Union through
knowledge," but many Yoga students are still deeply puzzled by this
explanation. The deeper explanation of Jnana Yoga is long and complex. Jnana is
a spiritual discipline, which enables you to open the intuitive powers of your
soul. The study of Jnana Yoga is filled with self-inquiry and self-discovery.
The
result of this quest is realization of the Supreme Being, which we call God,
Brahman, Allah, Yahweh, Jehovah, The Absolute, and many more names. The variety
of names for the Supreme Being is unimportant.
Each
of us sees, feels, hears, smells, and tastes, everything differently. One
person loves the taste of something, while another does not. If you love
something and someone does not, should you judge them harshly or consider them
an enemy? This often happens in sports, politics, religion, and while driving
through traffic.
People
have to get past their differences in order find their true and higher purpose
in life. Critically judging each other, and ourselves, consumes a lot of energy
in the form of anger, worry, stress, envy, and hate.
Unfortunately,
some people will never get past their differences, unless they truly want to
change. World peace would be the end result of global Jnana Yoga practice.
Realization of God makes us aware of our place in the universe.
Jnana
Yoga is a self-quest, a journey within, self-realization, and transformation,
all wrapped into one package. Study, Pranayama, meditation, and Japa are just a
handful of the components within Jnana Yoga.
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