the fullness of human potential. There are four different "paths" or yogas Hindus may take to reach

their goal of uniting with God. They have different paths for different types of people who choose

to follow them. Jnana yoga is for more reflective individuals, bhakti is for those whose emotions,

more particularly love, drives them to become closer to God, karma is for those who enjoy being

actively engaged in the work of God, thus becoming closer to Him, and raja yoga is for those who

use psychophysical experiments to try to find a way to God.

Jnana yoga is perhaps the most difficult "path" to God. Smith points out that only those

who have a strong sense of reflection, who try to change their lives and themselves by controlling

their thoughts, choose to walk this path. He states that the way to accomplish this is to use

discrimination to separate the "surface self" that everyone can see and the "larger self" that lies

hidden and dormant. There are three steps one takes on this path hearing, thinking, and applying

what they learned to change their self-identification. Hearin

and bhaktas are taught to attach themselves to one form to deepen their feelings for it.

main goal of karma yoga is to become as far from self-centeredness as possible, thus becoming

Karma yoga can be split into two modes jnanic and bhakti. When using jnanic karma the yogi

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