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1.#Opinion : Sunday, 06 Aug 2023. 05:30. 3217. /// 1.#What is Yoga? 1.3 : Swami Krishnananda.

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  ================================================================================ 1.#Opinion : Sunday, 06 Aug 2023. 05:30. 3217. ///   Yoga and Meditation 1.#What is Yoga? : 3. Swami Krishnananda (A write-up on the Yoga-Vedanta Forest University published in the July 1957 issue of the Divine Life magazine) ================================================================================ 1.3 :  MODES OF YOGA When the intellectual powers are made use of exclusively in the practice of Yoga, we generally call it Jnana Yoga, because analysis, understanding, knowledge are the defining characteristics of this Yoga. When with the force of will, determination and decision the individual fixes his attention on the concept of God, he is called a Raja Yogi. When he begins to love God through emotion, devotion, feeling, he is a Bhakti Yogi. When he puts this knowledge into practical action, he becomes a Karma Yogi. Karma Yoga is not an exclusive Yoga. It is an external expression of the internal kn