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Term: Jnana Yoga

DEFINITION:
Achieving union with the Divine (“yoga”) through knowledge (jnana). The techniques include learning to discriminate between what is real (anything that is eternal) and unreal (everything else), developing the ability to detach yourself from the unreal, practice of six virtues such as control of the mind, perfect concentration, faith, etc., and intense longing for freedom from rebirth (reincarnation). One of the four major yogic paths.