What does it mean to leave karma, gyaan and yoga?

Devotee: What does it mean to leave karma, gyaan and yoga?

Prabhu: The way to achieve to Svayam Bhagavan… In vedas and other scriptures, millions of

paths are described. Among these best is 3 paths- gyaan, yoga, bhakti ; karma is like sideway. Only by these 3 you can be anyhow attached to Svayam Bhagwan. What karma means? It

means what you doing, your activities, physical activities, you are donating something, you are

doing some austerity. By karmas you can only attain Swarg Lok. You will get pious credit. For a

long time you will get heavenly pleasure, not eternally after your pious credit will be finished

you will have to come back here, maybe as human or animal. But if you want connect with

Svayam Bhagavan then by those 3 ways only you can connect. First gyaan, by gyaan you can see the light, body efflugence- Brahman. It is very difficult

because you have reject everything, refuse everything. In the path of gyaan you have to

worship who have no quality, no shape, no taste, who has nothing. For us it is very difficult to

imagine a person who have no shape, no form. If you want know something about someone, first you will ask how it looks, then his qualities. If there is no shape, no quality then it is

difficult to imagine something. Then yoga, by yoga you get to see Paramatma. He will call you but he never reply you. It is a

neutral state. Paramatma is only witnessing our activities. So how you will attach yourself with

him who will never reply you, never talk to you, who will not repay you love. Only by this bhakti path you can get anything, you can get connection, attachment, relation

with Svayam Bhagwan, not indirectly but directly. So that is why Sriman Mahprabhu adviced

us to follow this bhakti path. But if you follow this path then you have to leave all other path

otherwise your mind will be distracted. But Rupa Goswami said very thing in Bhaktirasamrita

Sindhu about uttama bhakti, he said that your bhakti should not be covered by gyaan or karma.

It must not be covered. But here he didn't say that you have leave gyaan and karma, that

means indirectly he said you can accept some part of gyaan and karma, but it should not cover

your bhakti path. So some parts of gyaan or yoga like meditation, pranayam you can accept in

your practice. But you have to be very careful it should not cover your bhakti. We do not have

to completely leave this path, we have to accept some part only to develop our bhakti. So that

is why we are following meditation, pranayam. These all are parts of karma and gyaan.