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What does this form of Union (with Brahman) through knowledge

yoga entail?

What type of person is The relfective, intellectual, studious

likely to pursue this person
yoga?

Is it faster or slower It is a faster path to moksha, but more

yogic path? difficult and demanding

Is it an elite or popular Elite, b/c it requires literacy and time for

form of Hindu practice? intellectual pursuits

What is the broad goal To transform the knower into what it seeks
of jnana yoga? to know -namely, Brahman

How, in general, is this By discriminating between one's "false

objective accomplished? self" and one's "deeper, true self" (atman)

What are the three Hearing: hearing the words of the gurus
stages or components of and scriptures Thinking: long, diliberate,
jnana yogic practice? intensive reflection on one's divine nature
and its identity with Brahman, Self-
identification: actualizing what you already
inherently are -namely Brahman

What school of Hindu The Vedanta (Vedas end)

philosophy was jnana
yoga systematized?

What does this reference That it was the inspiration of the Vedanta

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to the Upanishads
reveal?

Who was Vedanta's Shankara (788-820 C.E.)

leading figure?

What did this leading That all things are interrelated, unified, and
figure argue? inherently sacred (Brahman)

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