#highest truth

Path to Jnana Yoga

Jnana is known as wisdom and knowledge. Jnana Yoga is can be categorized and understood into three parts.

The initial phase consists of deciphering the ultimate unshakeable truth, that is, the Atman or Spirit is the only reality and that everything else is an illusion or maya.

Second revolves around the reasoning upon this philosophy from all points of view.

Third consists of giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth.

Let us examine what allows this thought to materialize.

This realization comes from first, being certain that Brahman is real and everything else is unreal, secondly, giving up all desire for enjoyment, & controlling the senses and the mind, and lastly, cultivating naturally, the intense desire of salvation.

Meditating on the reality always and reminding oneself of its real nature are the only ways in this yoga.

It is the highest but most difficult.

Many persons get an intellectual grasp of it, but very few attain realization.

Spirituality encompasses everything; therefore, it includes human character, too. To have a good character is to have honesty, simplicity, spontaneity, absence of anger, pride and so forth. When an ordinary human being possesses all these qualities, we call him a man of good character. But although spirituality is inside these qualities and these qualities are also inside spirituality, real spirituality is something infinitely higher and deeper, for it deals with life-transforming and God-becoming aspiration. A man of good character need not care for the highest absolute Truth — he may remain quite satisfied with his moral achievements — but a spiritual man goes far beyond the domain of morality with his heart’s inner burning cry in order to reach the highest Truth and bring it down to illumine himself and the earth-consciousness.