KARMA YOGA, BHAKTI YOGA, GYANA YOGA, KRIYA YOGA

KNOW YOUR YOGA

Yoga is understood as the union between the consciousness of an individual and the universe. The process is a method that is used to reach your higher nature. Here are the four types of yoga.

Karma Yoga

• Using physical action to achieve ultimate union.
• Karma yoga is not necessarily service, it is just pure action without any intention.
• Working with such abandon that the body is no longer a limitation for action.

Bhakti Yoga

• Using emotion to reach the ultimate union.
• Devotion is a way of transforming one's emotion from negativity to pleasantness. Through that sweetness, one grows. Devotion is another dimension of intelligence.

Gyana Yoga

• Using your intellect to transcend the physical and reach ultimate union.
• The intellect must be uninfluenced by anything.
• A gyana yogi doesn't believe or disbelieve anything."What I know, I know, what I do not know , I do not know -gyana.

Kriya Yoga

• Kriya Yoga targets the energy that is the basis behind the body, mind, and emotion.
• Using internal action and transforming your energies to reach the ultimate union.
• Working with Kriya can influence the other three aspects of a human being.

Kriya demands a lot of discipline and time but it is up to each person on how diligently they pursue Kriya depending on how quickly they wish to achieve the ultimate union.

WHY FOUR TYPES OF YOGA 

Yoga is attached to a method, which defines it as a complete path unto itself. The four realities for a human being are the body, mind , emotion and energy. You are a combination of these four things. They are only different aspects.

Yoga allows a human being to work on all these four. Everyone is a unique combination of all four. Although each individual may have one dominant over the others. Every moment, everyone is doing one of these four types of yoga, but in an unorganised way.