ALL DHARMA:-

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FOUR PATHS:-

When a man has learnt to live thus, ( 1.Satyam(truthfulness) + 2.Brahmacarya (self-control) + 3.Ahimsa( non-injury), in perfect self-control, ever vigilant to gather knowledge from the lived experiences, and when he has lived some years an inner life based upon the principles of non-injury in his motives and truthfulness to his wisdom, he becomes the chosen child of nature to be lifted to the top of the evolutionary ladder--the Super manhood.

The techniques by which this last lap of the pilgrimage is accomplished constitute the contents of the different yogas( practices ), advised  in religions.  In Hinduism we have four different technical strategies prescribed for accomplishing this final transformation from manhood to Godhood, from our carping sorrows to the voiceless bliss. 

These four paths:- 1.Bhakti ( devotion ),  2.Jnana ( knowledge ), 3. Karma ( action ), and 4. Hatha yoga ( mystical )------are neither contradictory nor find such a variety of delightful methods prescribed antagonistic to each other, but they all run converging into the one and the same goal. This shall be the theme of our study today. In no religion of the world do we find such a variety of delightful methods prescribed for our joy-ride to bliss Infinite or Godhood.


In all other religions, except Buddhism, there is only one beaten-out footpath through which everyone in the fold must, without protest, jolt along ----the path of Devotion. This insistence and the lack of accommodations in other religions had compelled many of their faithful to go astray seeking 'fresh woods and pastures new' and invariably all of them could find ample living space only in endless temple-halls of Hinduism.

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