Dear Sandeep,
The way I have understood is that karma yoga without expectations purifies our
mind. Pure mind attracts knowledge (Sankya Yoga). Knowledge will start to
increase devotion (Bhakti yoga). Therefore these three yogas are like three
points on a circle. Different people may start at different point. But
ultimately when one has experienced all three yogas the person progesses
spiritually in to Sadhana and ultimately achieves Moksha. So they are all
connected.
With Best Regards,
Sadashiv.

"vedicastrostudent <vedicastrostudent (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>" <vedicastrostudent (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:
In my very beginner level knowledge of the Gita, it seems to me that there are
several at least superficially different ways to approach God. Of them, Karma
Yoga seems to me to be the doing of compassionate action without any regard for
returns, Bhakti Yoga seems to be the expression of devotion to God, and Sankhya
Yoga seems almost to be the discovery of God through analytical understanding
(observation?)of the universe.I have several questions:1) First, do you Gurus
agree with the above assessment? I know that at the deeper level the Gita also
says that all paths are essentially the same, so perhaps I am wrong in even
recognizing these as somewhat different.2) Second, if they are in some way
different (as they appear to be), I remember that in this group I have heard
that if your AK is the same as your Istha Devata you are a Karma Yogi. Are
there similar simple patterns in a chart to recognize Bhakti Yoga and even more
interestingly, Sankhya Yoga in a chart? If so, what are they?3) In my simple
understanding of the above Yogas, it seems to me that someone like Srila
Prabhupada would be a Bhakti Yogi, someone like Mother Teresa would be a Karma
Yogi, and perhaps someone like Jiddu Krishnamurti or the Buddha would be a
Sankhya Yogi. Is this correct? The chart details of all can be found in the
birthdata bank in this newsgroup. It would be nice if someone could show the
above mentioned patterns (if they exist) in some of the above charts.Thank you
very much in advance,SundeepArchives:
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