Without devotion desireless work and sacrifice is quite impossible. Infact till now I have mostly seen karma/bhakati to be used often synonomously. Jnana on the other hand involves self-introspection. Jnana by itself has little to do with devotion to a god. Finally the term yoga when used to refer to a system points to practices of a purely technical natureand is not directly related to karma/bhakti or jnana. A yogi or any aspirant must follow and use one or more or all of karma/bhakti/jnana to describe his philosophic view point of his practice. But the actual yogic practice is not karma or bhakti or jnana. He may perform them as an act of devotion or act of work etc. But yoga (in the current context, like when we say raja yoga etc.) refers to the actual techniques being used and not the bhava or the philosophic aspect of the practice.
I believe that an aspirant is a karmi and a bhakta and aspires to be a jnani. Of course some yogic practices are more related to one of the three views.
These are oviously my understanding and I want to know where they may be wrong ...
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