Three Types Of Yoga

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There are three types of Yogas, which are Jnana Yoga or knowledge Yoga, Karma Yoga or Action Yoga and Bhakti Yoga or devotion Yoga. Jnana Yoga or Knowledge Yoga, this type of Yoga is talked about to bring insight into one’s nature by studying the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita and their criticism and by learning from gurus who have reached to insight. Jnana yoga is especially appropriate for priests and intellectuals. A school of philosophy highly refine this yoga, which is still quite vital, the school of Vedanta or Veda. The Upanishads was referred to this term, which comes at the end of the Vedas, and to the fact that the ideas of the Upanishads have to be used in the Vedanta school as its primary inspiration.
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When they face the thing that is what they have wished, they will not be happy that much. When they made a mistake, they will not be sad that much too. Live the life constantly in illusion, not tend to the power of anything and be constant. That person naturally can see the nature of these three things that are not true at all. The person who can escape from these threes illusion, so they naturally can escape from the Karma too, and they also can escape from Birth, old age, illness, and death. They can reach to immortality eternally.
Nowadays, everyone must finish well our own responsibilities, do whatever that were ordered. In the philosophy of Bhagavad-Gita, it taught us to do these things voluntarily by not be controlled by the power of desire. Even though when you do an action, you just do only a little, but it can count that you are already successful. For example, students should do the duty as well as they can and do it voluntarily. The student should focus on their own goals and try to achieve it. So it can call that this person is a perfect student and finish their goals or the thing what they wish
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The action which based on goodness. The effect of the action which brings people meet the good thing or the beautiful thing. The action which comes from ambition will bring the people to the good thing or bad thing. It is up to the mood at that moment. In contrast, when a man commits a sin, or a bad thing, the result of the deed will bring a man down to the darkness. Both good and evil will hold the man in the circle of circulatory death which is a suffering. To be free from the circle of circulatory death, we have to give up everything that is good or bad. And faith in the Lord. To get rid of circulatory death. And reach the

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