Kendriya Vidyalaya
No.1 Sagar Cantt.
Class: 12 ‘B’
Subject: Yoga
Topic: Yoga according to Shri mad
Bhagavad Geeta.
Submitted To : Mr Rohit Pathak Sir
Submitted by : Sumit Soni
Certificate
This is to certify that this project has
been made by “SUMIT SONI” of
class XII ‘B’ on the topic ‘YOGA
ACCORDING TO SHRI MAD
BHAGAVAD GEETA’ under the
guidance of Mr. ROHIT PATHAK Sir
during the year 2023-2024 and
have been completed successfully.
Teacher’s sign. Principal sign.
__________ _________
Acknowledgement
I would like to express my special
thanks of gratitude to my teacher
“MR. ROHIT PATHAK” Sir as well
as our principal who gave me the
golden opportunity to do this
wonderful project which also helped
me in doing a lot of research and I
came to know about so many new
things. I am really thankful to them.
INDEX
➢ INRODUCTION
➢ WHAT IS YOGA
➢ KARMA YOGA
➢ KARMA YOGA OF
BHAGAVAD GEETA
➢ BHAKTI YOGA
➢ JNANA YOGA
➢ CRITICISM
➢ CONCLUSION
I
Introduction
The Bhagvad Gita, a very widely known
classical texts on yoga, gives various
definitions of yoga as follows:
• Yoga is equanimity of mind in
success and failures.
• Yoga is the remover of misery and
destroyer of pain. Yoga is the supreme
secret of life.
• Yoga is serenity.
WHAT IS YOGA
Yoga – Sanskrit word ‘Yuj’ means to
connect or balance.
• The purpose of yoga is to connect
the individual energy with the
universal energy or to connect the
individual being with the supreme
being.
• This oneness is spiritual not
physical.
• In Bhagavad Geeta, Krishna
represents the supreme being and
Arjuna represents an ordinary living
being.
• Within the Gita, there are three
paths that laid out to understand the
Divine -
1. Karma yoga (yoga of action)
2. Jnana yoga (yoga of intellect)
3. Bhakti yoga (yoga of devotion)
KARMA YOGA
• Karma yoga refers to all good,
correct human acts implemented
with concentration, expertise and
skill for paving the path to salvation
(Moksha)
• It requires your services, activities
or deals to be without any
attachment to the temporal world.
• Karma yoga makes the living being
strong enough so that materialistic
happiness doesn’t affect him.
• Karma yoga helps society and
humankind to come out of the
Janam-Mrityu Chakra.
• Karma Yoga is not bounded by
actions only, but its strengthens the
senses, which is also important in
the practice of yoga.
• Karma Yoga or the path of action in
Bhagvad Gita teaches people how to
cope with the pains and pleasures of
life without choosing and without
escaping.
Karma Yoga of
Bhagavada GEEta
Nishkama karma :-
• Gita says that do your duty without ego
and without calculations of gain and
loss.
• One should believe in Nishkama Karma
i.e. Fruits of work should not be thought
of while performing the duty.
• It protects one from the greatest fears.
• It frees one from bondage of karma.
• It also leads to ek-buddhi (clarity).
• The Samkaras of virtuous actions are
embedded in the Chitta.
• Chitta are valuable assets which will
prevent you from doing wrong actions.
• They will goad you to do selfless
actions.
• Work unselfishly with disinterested
spirit.
• If you care for the fruits of actions,
you will be caught up in the wheel of
birth and death.
BHAKTI YOGA
• Bhakti- sanskrit word ‘Bhaj’ means
love, attachment, faith, devotion and
prayer.
• Bhakti Yoga is the process of inner
purification.
• Bhakti is the purest, unselfish, and
most beautiful form of love where the
devotee feels connected with God in
his/her every breath.
• Bhakti Yoga asks us to purify and
transform or egoistic self love by
putting holy thoughts into the mind
and transferring it to God.
• The follower of Bhakti yoga establishes a
relationship with God and eventually
realizes that God is everything and
everywhere.
• Bhakti yoga is a spiritual path to
liberation by uniting one’s Atman (true
self) with the Brahman (true reality)
through intense love for God.
• In Bhakti yoga, no form of god is
superior to another.
• The Bhakti Sutra explains that Bhakti
yoga is both the means and the ends.
Jnana Yoga
• Yoga of Wisdom; or Cultivation of
Discrimination.
• It is the path of knowledge, wisdom,
introspection and contemplation.
• In Gita, jnana yoga is referred as
buddhi yoga.
• The mind is used to inquire into its
own nature and to transcend the
mind’s identification with its thoughts
and ego.
• Jnana yoga has two aspects: FIRE and
LIGHT.
• The fire of knowledge burns all the
impurities of our mind and
simultaneously, knowledge enlightens
our inner consciousness but self
knowledge does not come by itself.
• The method of Jnana yoga is to
persuade the seeker that his/her sole
identity is the self.
CRITICISM
• The disadvantages of Karma
yoga is that everything is excess
is taken away from us, we
cannot overcome our worldly
ambitions, riches and pride will
be gone and people surrounding
us will be more successful than
us by putting lesser efforts. Such
things makes it difficult to
practice Karma yoga.
• In Jnana yoga, the devotees
are expected tobe well versed in
the knowledge of scriptures and
the implementation of the
principles enunciated therein. To
read all the scriptures and get
acquainted with all the do’s and
don’ts as enunciated in various
scriptural texts is not only
difficult but its entails lot of
investment of time, energy, and
effort.
• The disadvantage of Bhakti
yoga is that it can become an
escape from the rigors of the
deep self-examination required
for spiritual growth.
• Devotion can all too easily
deteriorate to a dreamy
sentimentalism if it is not
balanced with honest
introspection.
CONCLUSION
Bhagavad Gita explains that we
do become one with the supreme
being, but in quality and not in
quantity. Each seeker is called
upon to decide which Yoga best
corresponds to his/her natural
disposition. Karma yoga is
advised for the actions, Bhakti
yoga is for the devotional and
Jnana yoga for the rational.
