Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 12
In Jnanayoga a striver, by attaching importance to the discrimination between the real and the unreal, renounces the unreal. By renouncing the unreal, the entity of the renouncer as well of the thing renounced, remains for a long time, therefore in Jnanayoga, the total renunciation of the unreal is very much delayed. In Karmayoga, a striver renders service to others with the things he has. The worthless things of inferior quality are renounced easily but it is difficult to renounce things of Superior quality. But if those things are used in rendering service to others, the unreal is easily and quickly renounced. In Bhaktiyoga a devotee regards the world as God's or as God's manifestation, and thus the world (the unreal) is extinguished and God remains. Therefore by Karmayoga the unreal (inert) is more quickly renounced than by Jnanayoga and by Bhaktiyoga it is more quickly renounced than by Karmayoga, because in devotion the unreal does not persist at all—'Sadasaccaham' (Gita 9/19). Therefore Karmayoga is Superior to Jnanayoga—'tayostu kannasannyasat karmayogo visisyate' (Gita 5/2) and Bhaktiyoga is Superior to Karmuyoga
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