path of yoga knowledge

1. The word jnana signifies ‘knowledge’
‘insight’, and jnana yoga is accordingly the
yoga of gnostic knowledge’.
Sometimes jnana is also employed to
express the highest truth bearing
illumination, but in the compound Jnana –
yoga it is used in the sense of intuitive –
philosophical searching, or discernment
(viveka).

2. 1. Viveka – metaphysical ‘discernment’ between the real and the
unreal, the eternal and the finite, the human personality and the
supra personal Self.
2. Vairāgya – ‘renunciation’ of all worldly and heavenly objects.
3. Tapas – ‘austerity’ which is composed of the ‘six treasures’ (sat –
sampatti) which are:
sama – ‘tranquility’
dama-‘self-restraint’
uparati- ‘mind-control’
titiksa- ‘endurance’
samadhana-contemplation’
sraddha-‘faith’;

3. 4. Mumuksutva-‘longing-for –
emancipation’
5.Sravana-‘listening’ to the sacred lore
and the teachings of the guru;
6.Manana-‘reflection’ on what has
been heard;
7.Nididhyasana-‘meditation’ on the
doctrines revealed by the teacher or
the scriptures, ending in ecstasy
(samadhi).