THREE PATHS TO LIBERATION

KARMA MARGA

KARMA MARGA

• Karma Marga is for the socially active.
• people who prefer to seek liberation through day to day tasks such as raising a family or volunteering.
• This path is about living in harmony with dharma, it is about being unselfish
• A person has a set of specific social and religious obligations that must be fulfilled.

KARMA MARGA

• This is a way of life that is followed:
• A person should not be doing a good deed to be rewarded but rather
• because it is the right thing.

JNANA MARGA

JNANA MARGA

• the path of knowledge it is for philosophical or intellectual types
• Followers of this path must devote a great deal of time to learning and meditation.
• this path is usually followed by members of the Brahmin caste.
• Jnana Marga focuses on attaining knowledge over ignorance
• followers study the three schools of Hindu philosophy; Vedanta, Sankhya &yoga

JNANA MARGA

• To obtain knowledge of the true nature they are studied
• The path of Jnana Marga is the shortest but steepest journey to liberation
• it is a profound spiritual journey.

BHAKTI MARGA

BHAKTI MARGA

• This way offers the Hindu who gives grace to overcome bad Karma.
• The Hindu relies on the gods through faith and devotion.
• The way of devotion is one of the most popular paths of liberation people choose.
• When a Hindu gives love and devotion to a God, and to others, The god they are praying to makes liberation a possibility.
• Within modern Hinduism, yoga remains the predominant path towards spiritual fulfillment.

BHAKTI MARGA

• It includes the external and symbolic worship of the murti.
• The goals of many bhakti go into both bhukti and mukti and aim at pure, selfless service to a personal God