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bluestarman1 Posts: 68	jnana yoga Jul 9, 2012 3:10:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by bluestarman1 on Jul 9, 2012 3:10:17 GMT Anyone knowledgeable about jnana yoga and how it can be applied to Western religious beliefs. Or if that's even possible.

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Post by aceofcups on Jul 9, 2012 4:12:03 GMT

Jnana Yoga is the Yoga of Knowledge or Supreme Wisdom in Vedanta Philosophy.

Jnana yoga teaches that there are four means to spiritual liberation:

Viveka - Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between what is real/eternal (Brahman) and what is unreal/temporal (everything else in the universe.)

Vairagya - Dispassion: After practice one should be able to "detach" her/himself from everything that is "temporary."

Shad-sampat - The 6 Virtues: Sama-Tranquility (control of the mind), Dama (control of the senses), Uparati (renunciation of activities that are not duties), Titiksha (endurance), Shraddha (faith), Samadhana (perfect concentration).

Mumukshutva - Intensely focused longing for moksha, liberation from temporal entanglements that bind one to the cycle of death and rebirth.

Last Edit: Jul 9, 2012 13:06:54 GMT by aceofcups

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep ... People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep ... Rumi

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