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Karma Yoga (Active path)

Jnanic Yoga (Reflective path)

The way through work

·         Practiced thoughtfully, seeking enlightenment not relationships (Jnanic)

·         Practiced through loving service (Bhakti)

Kingdom Spirituality

Head/Mind Spirituality

Path to oneness through knowledge (

intuitive discernment)

·         Hearing

·         Thinking

·         Shifting self-identification

Raja Yoga (Experimental path)

Bhakti Yoga (Emotional path)

Royal road, experiments in 4 layers of self (psycho-physical), willed introversion

·         Body

·         Conscious mind

·         Individual subconscious

·         Being Itself

Mystic/Mystery Spirituality

Heart Spirituality

Yoga of love & devotion

·         Love God, love one of his incarnations

·         Japam (vocables—repeating the name of God)

·         Ringing the changes of love (different types of love)

·         Worship one’s ideal (ishta)

Eight Steps practiced by Raja Yoga:

1.       Five abstentions: injury, stealing, lying, sensuality, and greed.

2.       Five observances: cleanliness, contentment, self-control, studiousness, and contemplation of the Divine.

3.       Body positioning (Lotus position)

4.       Breathing

5.       Unplug one’s sense receptors, concentration becomes controlled skill.

6.       Stillness of Mind.

7.       The Knower drops from view.

8.       The Object drops from view (Samadhi).