Youtuber: “Karma yoga is just one of the genuine paths. Nissargadatta Maharaj didn’t do karma yoga and still he attained. No need to project karma yoga on the guy and say, this is why he doesn’t get it, cause he doesn’t do karma yoga. One thing has nothing to do with the other.”
James: What did he attain? He gained Self knowedge, which means he lost his ignorance of What he is. There is a whole back story about Nisagardatta that you obviously don’t know, not to mention karma yoga or Vedanta, which isn’t a path. Karma yoga is a path that prepares you for Self knowledge. Self knowledge is “pathless” in so far as the removal of ignorance doesn’t take time. Paths take time. He “got it” all right, but was he a happy person? You assume he was because he is one of your spiritual heroes, but only he knows that and that self isn’t around to enlighten us. What use if Self knowledge – or self knowledge for that matter – if you aren’t a happy person? The only reason K-yoga or Vedanta or anything else is of interest to the very existent s/Self is because that s/Self wants to be happier that he or she is at any given moment, or less unhappy at any given moment. Life is zero-sum. Reality is no-sum.
