Jnana Yoga
Vivekananda's exposition of Jnana Yoga presents the path of knowledge and intellectual discrimination as the most direct route to realizing the oneness of Atman and Brahman. Rooted in Advaita Vedanta, he taught that ignorance of our true divine nature is the sole cause of bondage, and that liberation comes through the relentless inquiry into the nature of the Self. His Jnana Yoga lectures systematically unfold the Vedantic concepts of Maya, the Absolute, and the identity of the individual soul with the universal Spirit.
Key Quotes on Jnana Yoga
“But the same power that moves the chair is moving the heart, the lungs, and so on, but not through will”
— Volume 2, The Absolute and Manifestation
“We have also seen that all religions propose a God, as the one way of escaping these difficulties”
— Volume 2, God in Everything
“But that could not be the whole of truth; at best, it could be only partial truth”
— Volume 2, Realisation
Works on Jnana Yoga
The Absolute and Manifestation
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God in Everything
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Realisation
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Unity in Diversity
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The Freedom of the Soul
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The Cosmos: The Macrocosm
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The Cosmos: The Microcosm
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Immortality
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The Atman
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The Atman: Its Bondage and Freedom
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The Real and the Apparent Man
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The Necessity of Religion
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