Jnana Marga

To follow Jnana Yoga in this age (Kali yuga) is very difficult.

First, a man's life depends entirely on food,

Second, he has a short span of life,

Third, he can by no means get rid of body-consciousness.

The Jnani says :

 'I am Brahman ; I am not the body. I am beyond hunger and thirst, disease and grief, birth and death, pleasure and pain.'

How can you be a Jnani if you are conscious of disease, grief, pain, pleasure and the like ?

A thorn enters your flesh, blood flows from the wound, and you suffer very badly from the pain ; but nevertheless if you are Jnani you must be able to say :

'Why, there is no thorn in my flesh at all. Nothing is the matter with me.'

- Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna Dev.

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"A sage who has realised the Atman beholds that all objects and all beings are not distant from his own Self and that his Atman is the Atman of all. The Atman is the common consciousness in all beings"

🕉 Isavasya Upanishad