Questioner : Master, there are so many different kinds of yoga. How do I know which type of yoga is best for me?
Sadhguru : Right now, the only things which are in your experience are your
body, your mind, and your emotions. You know them to some extent, and
you can infer that if these three things have to happen the way they are
happening, there must be an energy that makes them happen. Without
energy, all this cannot be happening. Some of you might have experienced
it. Others can easily infer that for these three things to function,
there must be an energy behind them. For example, the microphone is
amplifying the sound of my voice. Even if you don’t know anything about
the microphone, you can infer that there is a source that powers it.
So these are the only four realities in your life: body, mind,
emotion, and energy. Whatever you wish to do with yourself, it must be
on these four levels. Whatever you wish to do, you can only do it with
your body, your mind, your emotions or your energy. If you use your
emotions and try to reach the ultimate, we call this bhakti yoga. That
means the path of devotion. If you use your intelligence and try to
reach the ultimate, we call this gnana yoga. That means the path of
intelligence. If you use your body, or physical action to reach the
ultimate, we call this karma yoga. That means the path of action. If you
transform your energies and try to reach the ultimate, we call this
kriya yoga. That means internal action.
These
are the only four ways you can get somewhere: either through karma,
gnana, bhakti or kriya – body, mind, emotion, or energy.
“No, no, I am on the path of faith. I don’t need to do anything else.”
Is there anybody here who is only head, no heart, hands and energy?
Is there anybody here who is only heart, not the other things?
You are a combination of these four things.
It is just that in one person the heart may be dominant,
in another person the head may be dominant,
in yet another person the hands may be dominant, but everybody is a
combination of these four. So you need a combination of these four.
It is just that, only if it is mixed in the right way for you, it works best for you.
What we give for one person, if it is given to you, it may not work
well for you because that person is so much heart and this much head.
That is why on the spiritual path there is so much stress on a live
Guru. He mixes the cocktail right for you, otherwise there is no punch.
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