Choose yoga that suits you according to your personality

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Generally speaking, Hinduism never opposes people's pursuit of enjoyment and success, but waits until one day you will finally get tired of pursuing these enjoyment and success, and you will begin to pursue the way to liberation. Hinduism believes that what people want is eternal existence, eternal knowledge and eternal joy, and Hinduism states that you have these things, but you just have to discover it. (Sure enough, Buddhism and Hinduism are both religions that originated in India, and their teachings are actually similar.) Different people achieve liberation through different methods, and they can be divided into four personalities: introspective, emotional, active, and experimental. Taking the fundamental distinction between internal provinces and emotions as the basis, four different types of yoga have emerged based on people with four different personalities: yoga of knowledge, yoga of love, yoga of karma, and yoga of practice. There is also another type, hatha yoga. The practice of yoga starts with moral construction, such as abiding by some basic life precepts and moral precepts to help practitioners regulate themselves. At the same time, there is no need to limit yourself to one type of yoga. The tutor encourages students to try each one (of course, one may be particularly suitable for you), and combining them may get better results.

Jnana Yoga, also known as Wisdom Yoga, is mainly suitable for people with a strong introspective tendency to unite with God through knowledge. But the so-called "knowledge" is not our ordinary book or life knowledge, but an "intuitive discernment." It is a bit similar to Zen, which realizes reality through pure speculation, and permanently stabilizes this understanding in oneself, perfectly combining self-nature and divinity. Conscious yoga is said to be the shortest path to divinity, but in fact it is only suitable for a very small number of people. (Some materials on the Internet say that they are meditation Vedic sentences, but they are not mentioned in this book.) Bhakti Yoga, also known as Bhakha Yoga, is mainly suitable for emotional people, that is, people who pay relatively more attention to emotions than thinking. The yoga of love is the most popular form of yoga. Its principle is quite simple, that is, love God only (love other things because it is related to God), love God unconditionally (without asking for anything in return), very similar to Christianity. (In fact, some Indians feel that Christianity is a form of Bhakhakha Yoga.) Myths and rituals play an extremely important role here, reaching the highest level by choosing the image of the god you want to worship (much like wicca here), repeating the name of the god (which many mystic sects do), and so on. The fundamental difference between the yoga of love and the yoga of knowledge is that in the yoga of knowledge, God is within themselves, while in the yoga of love, there is no doubt that God and oneself are two different things.

Karma Yoga is set up for people with a tendency to move. Such people may be more inclined to do some work than cleansing. At the same time, there is no doubt that it can also be used as an aid to the first two practices. (In modern society, people have to work to survive.) Therefore, according to intelligence/sensibility, karmic yoga is also divided into two types. What they have in common is simply work, focus, not pursue, and every action brings yourself to God. The type of knowing draws a clear line between the eternal self and external things, while the type of love attributes every work to dedication to God.

Raja Yoga, also known as King Yoga, is a path of physical and mental experimentation that can take people to dazzling heights. Very similar to Taoist cultivation, practitioners initially practice various body control kung fu and techniques, regulate breathing and qi, and do basic kung fu until they finally enter the experience of inner transcendence through meditation. Practitioners do not need to have any beliefs, but they must follow the instructions as accurately and step-by-step as they do scientific experiments. It is also the most easily possessed path, but it is attractive to those who like to experiment and see novel changes.

Hatha Yoga was originally intended as a prelude to spiritual yoga, but now it is often used by the West as a tool to shape the body. From a certain perspective, it has lost its original essence of yoga. (Internship Editor: Liang Yalin)