The four Yogis (4 types of yoga)

The four Yogis

There are four ways to become meditative. 

You can use your body to reach your ultimate nature this is called Karma Yoga.

If you use your intelligence to reach your ultimate nature we call this as Gnyana Yoga (Jnyana Yoga).

If you use your emotions to reach your ultimate nature we call this as Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of emotion or devotion). 

If you use or transform your inner energies to your ultimate nature we call this as Kriya Yoga.

On a certain day these four yogis, all of them are taking a walk together. 

Usually they can never be together because they can never get along, because people who follow path of intellect, they have great disdain for others, they think everybody else is the nutcase.

Devotional people, they have pity for all the other people, they are missing everything.

Karma yogis, these are the people of actions, they think, everybody is giving all kind of philosophies to hide their laziness.

Kriya yogis have absolute disdain for everybody, because after all the whole existence is energy, If you do not transform your energies, you cannot reach ultimate nature.

So these four people cannot get along but today all of them are taking a walk together. 

Suddenly a thunderstorm broke loose, big rain and wind started. 

They started running looking for shelter, the man of devotion said in this direction there is an ancient temple, lets go there. He knows the geography of temple so all ran there. 

Then they saw a temple where the walls of the temple had collapsed long ago. Only four columns and a roof , underneath that in the center there was a deity (an idol of God). 

They all started running towards the temple. 

Then the storm became more and more severe and started lashing out from every direction, to avoid this they all hug the deity, not because they have fallen in love with God, just to escape from the rain.

And to there amaze suddenly God appeared. In all their four minds got same question - oh! why now? We did so much yoga, so much devotion, so much worship, you didn't come!! Now we are just escaping a rain, why have you come? 

God said I have been waiting, at last you four idiots got together!!

So these four have to get together, then you become meditative.