On 20 April'11, Swamiji continued with the next slokas (5/6).
Both Karma Yoga and jnana yoga achieve the same result for the people who follow them truly.The person who understands this, sees the truth.
Anyone ,who wants Moksha,should go through karma yoga and jnana yoga just like one goes to college after schooling. Both are equally important and one is incomplete without the other.But there are exceptions.There are many cases where one has gone straight to jnana yoga from ancient times. Sukhamaharishi is a great example from puranas. Again, Vamadeva rishi, was a jnani even when he was in his mother's womb. In recent times, Ramana maharishi never did any karma yoga.
Shastra explains that the sequence of karma yoga and jnana yoga need not be completed in one janma.Also it is said that the sadhanas done in one janma is not lost and one starts from that level achieved in the earlier janma, in the subsequent birth. Going back to our earlier example, This is similar to a student ,who has completed his schooling in Mumbai, starts his college education at Bangalore, when he shifts himself there.He does not ( need not) repeat his schooling again.
Karma yoga prepares one for Jnana yoga.But one cannot really find out when he has completed his karma yoga and qualified for taking up jnana yoga. Without karma yoga, Samyasa (jnana ) yoga will be torturous. Anyone who is not qualified will never enjoy his job for which he is not suited. for example , a person who is very kind in nature, can never fit to be a butcher.
In this world , there is nothing really good or bad. Only the combination makes any thing one way or other.While we can never tolerate the gutters, a pig will enjoy that surrounding , not a rose garden
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