RamDev – Healing At The Edge – Ep. 131 – The Four Paths of Yoga

Exploring embodiment and self-realization, RamDev takes listeners on a journey through the four paths of yoga: Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jñāna Yoga, and Raja Yoga.

This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev discusses:

• Karma Yoga, holding both success and failure equally—offering everything to God
• Bhakti Yoga and dissolving the ego through devotion
• The obstacles of Bhakti: getting lost in emotions and secularism
• Jñāna Yoga, the path of philosophical and contemplative minds
• The importance of allowing clarity and knowledge to serve compassion
• Raja Yoga, the path of meditation and discipline
• Looking at crises as motivation for doing more practice
• Blending yogic paths for the synthesis of head, heart, and mind
• The benefit of sticking to one path for a deeper experience
• Becoming embodied in order to heal addiction and trauma
• How crucial it is to go beyond conceptual reality

“Modern practitioners often blend these paths. Bhakti softens Jñāna’s austerity, Karma Yoga grounds devotion and service, Raja Yoga provides stability and focus. The synthesis of head, heart, and mind is the integral yoga of our age.” –RamDev

About Dale Borglum:

RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co­author with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974.

RamDev offers lectures and workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life ­threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. RamDev’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free.

Learn more about RamDev’s work via the Living/Dying Project and follow him on Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok.

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Listen to more from RamDev Dale Borglum:

RamDev gives a dharma talk about cultivating enough faith to face things as they are, and leads a meditation centered on the power of the grounding breath in Healing at the Edge Ep. 49.

Building a bridge from separation to connection, RamDev offers practices for staying grounded, working with emotions like grief, and transmuting fear into love, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 67.

RamDev shares stories of his time with Ram Dass from the early days of the satsang and reflects on what Ram Dass meant to him as a teacher and friend in Healing at the Edge Ep. 42.

RamDev shares a dharma talk on how we can ease our suffering by offering compassion to our fear, in Healing at the Edge Ep. 46.