The Four Yogas (Paths of Jñāna, Bhakti, Karma, Rāja)

Hindu tradition recognizes that people reach the goal by different routes, and groups the major paths as four 'yogas': the way of knowledge, the way of loving devotion, the way of selfless action, and the way of meditative discipline. The Bhagavad-gītā weaves the first three together; the fourfold scheme as a tidy set is largely a later, especially modern, framing. They are complementary, not rival, roads.