{"id":895,"date":"2024-07-16T16:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=895"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:00:51","slug":"the-four-main-paths-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/4-paths-of-yoga\/the-four-main-paths-of-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Main Paths of Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four main spiritual paths for God Realization are Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karma Yoga<\/strong> is a suitable yoga for a person of active temperament. Karma Yoga is the way of selfless service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bhakti Yoga<\/strong> is a suitable yoga for a person of devotional temperament. Bhakti Yoga is the path of exclusive devotion to God, who seeks union through love or devotion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raja Yoga<\/strong> is a suitable yoga for a person of mystic temperament. Raja Yoga is the way of self-restraint, seeking union with God through mysticism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jnana Yoga <\/strong>is a suitable yoga for a person of rational and philosophical temperament, or a person of inquiry. Jnana Yoga is the path of intuitive knowledge, seeking to unite oneself with the Supreme Self through inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The word Yoga really means union with God. The Sadhaka often ventures into all four disciplines on their path. Whatever may be the starting point &#8211; Karma, Bhakti, Raja, Jnana &#8211; the end goal is the same &#8211; communion with the Divine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four main spiritual paths for God Realization are Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga. Karma Yoga is a suitable yoga for a person of active temperament. Karma Yoga is the way of selfless service. Bhakti Yoga is a suitable yoga for a person of devotional temperament. Bhakti Yoga is the path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-4-paths-of-yoga","8":"tag-swami-sivananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}