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Lesson VI: Gnani Yoga.335
Lesson VI: Gnani Yoga.
Gnani Yoga is known as the “Yoga of Wisdom.” The word, “Gnani,” is
derived from the Sanscrit root-word “Gna,” meaning “to know.” We
prefer the word “Gnani,” although the words, “Jnana,” “Gnyana,” etc., are
often used, and have the same meaning.
Gnani Yoga is the path to which student, philosophers—men and women
of the intellectual temperament are attracted. Those who are attracted
by metaphysical reasoning and speculation, subtle intellectual research,
philosophy, science, and similar lines of mental effort, turn naturally to
“Gnani Yoga” as it holds out to them a pleasant and agreeable path to that
which is dear to their hearts.
But one does not have to be a skilled metaphysician, or a deep student,
to avail himself of the lessons of this branch of the Yogi Philosophy. It is open
to all of those who wish to know the why and wherefore of life—who are
not satisfied with the commonplace and childish explanations of the great
problems of existence that are offered to them by the ordinary teachings
and creeds—to those who regard the exoteric side of the subject as all very
well in its way, but whose natures call out for the hidden knowledge, the
esoteric phase of the truth.