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The Four Yogas (Paths of Jñāna, Bhakti, Karma, Rāja)
Four roads to the one summit — knowledge, love, action, and meditation.
Hindu tradition recognizes that people reach the goal by different routes, and groups the major paths as four 'yogas': the way of knowledge, the way of loving devotion, the way of selfless action, and the way of meditative discipline. The Bhagavad-gītā weaves the first three together; the fourfold scheme as a tidy set is largely a later, especially modern, framing. They are complementary, not rival, roads.
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- Bhagavad-gītāKuru-Pañcāla region · -150explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 18↗explains
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 29↗applies
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