Articles of category "Jnana yoga"

There's more to yoga than just sitting down with your legs crossed. The most common Jnana Yoga description in the Western world is the following: the yoga of knowledge. No need to be a genius to be able to guess that a lot more lurks behind this laconic phrase. Here in this article we will try to shed some light onto Jnana yoga origins, its principles and essentials.

The word 'Jnana' in Sanskrit means 'wisdom' or 'knowledge'. The Jnana Yoga concept is a method for seeking freedom in which the seeker identifying with the real Self, rather than with his/her body or ego, is achieved by an effort to differentiate or distinguish between the pure self-awareness and the matters of awareness, the ideas that is called Viveka in Sanskrit.