ion; meditation.

The practice of Raja Yoga will lead the student to the path of Gnani Yoga;
and to the realization that Bhakti Yoga, the way of love and service will
be included, not as an arduous task; not as a study, or as a means to an
end, but because of the love of it.

_Gnani Yoga_ comes as complementary to practice of the sutras because
knowledge applied for the purpose of spiritual attainment brings _wisdom_.
_Gnani Yoga_, then, is the path of wisdom. The follower of Gnani Yoga seeks
the occult or hidden wisdom, and always has before him the idea of whether
this or that be of the Self, the _atman_, or of the self, the personal,
gradually eliminating from his desires all that does not answer the test of
its reality in spiritual consciousness; he welcomes experiences of all
kinds, as so many lessons from which he extracts the fine grain of truth,
and throws aside the husks; he accepts nothing blindly or in faith, but
"proves all things holding fast to that which is good"; not that he lacks
faith, but because the very nature of his inquiry is to discover the
interior nature and its relation to God.

There are many in the world of to-day who feel the urge toward the path of
Gnani Yoga, because of the conviction that is forcing itself upon every
truly enlightened mind, that civilization with all its wonderful
achievements, does not promise happiness, or solve the question of the
soul's urge. In short, the educated, and the well conditioned, if he be a
thinker, and not submerged in _maya_, lost in the personal self, inevitably
finds himself searching for the _real_ in all this labyrinth of mind
creations and sea of emotions, and then as a rule, he seeks the path of
Gnani Yoga, because his intellect must be satisfied, even though his heart
calls. The mystic, the teacher, and the philosopher are following the path
of Gnani; so is the true occultist, but many who deal in so-called
occultism are employing _knowledge_ only, entirely missing the higher
quality--_wisdom_.

_Bhakti Yoga_, the path of self-surrender; the thorny way through the
emotions; the "blood of the heart," is the short cut to Illumination, if
such a thing could be. But there is no "short cut"; nor yet a long road.

Some one has said there are as many ways to God as there are souls. And
yet, all persons who are on the upward climb, are demonstrating some one of
these four paths, or a combination of the paths. It is, however, a
significant fact that w