It's good to know your astrological chart-mine is Pisces so I'm prone to Bhakti Yoga-someone else may be more cerebral and attracted primarily to Jhana Yoga, Karma Yoga can be for those who are active, Raja may again appeal to those who are more intellectual. Christianity ,I think, is a combination of Bhakti and Karma Yoga basically. And bible study.
Janana Yoga
Janana means knowledge and this yoga is the path to understanding ultimate reality through knowledge. Of course, the reality the yogi (a practitioner of yoga) is trying to comprehend is the identity of atman (one's own soul) with Brahman (the creator and essence of the cosmos). And comprehension of this identity must happen not just at the intellectual level, but with every fiber of a person's being...
Bhakti Yoga
This is the path of devotion to a god, or, more precisely, the path of the love of a god. A person thus centers on a god or goddess (such as Vishnu, Parvati, Ganesha) and expresses their love for him or her. The goal is not to just say "I love Shiva" or "I love Kali" or just to perform acts of love and worship, but to actually love them, to devote oneself to them as if they were a lover, a parent or one's child...
Karma Yoga
This yoga aims to reverse the natural order workings of karma. Karma is generated by every action a person performs during their lives, and, it is the working out of karma that requires rebirth after death. So, Karma Yoga reasons, if a person could live without generating karma, then there would be nothing to cause rebirth...
Raja Yoga
Raja means "royal," so this is the royal yoga. This is essentially the path of meditation, that is, of being able to remove one's own consciousness from its awareness of this world of maya and to focus only on the ultimate reality of the cosmos' unity. ..
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