YOGA OF SYNTHESIS

After having seen all the different types of yoga, it is very clear that each of these yogas. Karma yoga, Raja yoga, Bhakti yoga and Jnana yoga though appears to be different and separate from one another, in reality they are all different ways of achieving the same goal and a yogi can take up one of yogas as main path at the same time the others as auxiliary to the main in order to achieve quick progress. Man is a strange, complex mixture of will, feeling and thought. He wills to possess the object of his desires. He has emotions and so he feels; he has reason and so he thinks and rationalises. Just as will, feeling and thought are not distinct and separate so also work, devotion and knowledge are not exclusive of one another. The yoga of synthesis is the most suitable and potent form of Sadhana. The yoga synthesis alone will bring about integral development and develop the head heart and lead one to perfection. To become harmoniously

balanced in all directions is the ideal of religion. This can be achieved by the practice of yoga of synthesis. To behold the one Universal self in all beings in Jnana wisdom, to love this self is Bhakti devotion and to serve this self is karma action. When jnana yogin attains wisdom, he is endowed with devotion and selfless activity. Karma yoga for him is a spontaneous expression of his spiritual nature as he sees the one self in all. When the devotee attains perfection in devotion he is possessed of wisdom and activity. For him also karma yoga is a spontaneous expression of his divine nature as he beholds the one Lord every where. The karma yogin attains wisdom and devotion when his actions are wholly selfless. The three paths are in fact one in which the three different temperaments emphasise one or other of its in separable constituents. Yoga supplies the method by which the self can be seen, loved and served. Freedom in yoga is Kaivalya or absolute

independence. The soul is free.