कल्याणके तीन सुगम मार्ग
Kalyāṇa ke Tīna Sugama Mārga
Three Accessible Paths to the Highest Good
Swami Ramsukhdas · Complete English reading edition
A concise guide to knowledge, selfless action, and devotion: their characteristic standpoints, disciplines, culminations, and deep complementarity on the way to the highest good.
About this edition
Three paths, one highest good
This edition follows the complete Hindi source paragraph by paragraph, preserving the authored path divisions, scriptural verses and glosses, footnotes, analogies, deliberate repetitions, and the exact asymmetries of the concluding comparison.
The official PDF has 61 scans. Scan 1 is the front cover; scans 2–61 are the complete authored text and correspond to printed pages 1–60. The 27-row, three-column comparison and the separately titled essay The Seeker, the Goal, and the Means are both integral parts of the source book.
Reading guide
- 01The shared foundation and distinct standpoints of the three yogas
- 02Jñāna-yoga: discernment, renunciation, and one's true nature
- 03Karma-yoga: selfless duty, service, and freedom from possessiveness
- 04Bhakti-yoga: refuge in Bhagavān and supreme divine love
- 05The conclusion: where the three paths meet and differ
- 06All 27 points in the author's three-column comparison
- 07The seeker, the goal, and the means
Reading vocabulary
Working vocabulary
- kalyāṇa
- the highest good, embracing liberation and divine love
- jñāna-yoga
- the path of knowledge
- karma-yoga
- the path of selfless action or service
- bhakti-yoga
- the path of devotion and divine love
- sādhaka / sādhya / sādhana
- seeker / goal / means
- svarūpa / sattā-mātra
- true nature / pure Existence
- svāśraya / bhagavad-āśraya
- reliance on the Self / refuge in Bhagavān
The author’s complete comparison
Twenty-seven distinctions among the three paths
These are the source’s own parallel formulations. Their deliberate asymmetries are preserved rather than harmonized.
01
- Jñāna-yoga
- A spiritual discipline
- Karma-yoga
- A material discipline
- Bhakti-yoga
- A theistic discipline
02
- Jñāna-yoga
- The power to know
- Karma-yoga
- The power to act
- Bhakti-yoga
- The power to believe
03
- Jñāna-yoga
- Primacy of discernment
- Karma-yoga
- Primacy of action
- Bhakti-yoga
- Primacy of devotional feeling — faith and trust
04
- Jñāna-yoga
- Knowing one’s essential nature
- Karma-yoga
- Rendering service
- Bhakti-yoga
- Acknowledging God
05
- Jñāna-yoga
- Devotion to one’s essential nature
- Karma-yoga
- Devotion to duty
- Bhakti-yoga
- Devotion to God
06
- Jñāna-yoga
- Reliance on the Self
- Karma-yoga
- Reliance on dharma — duty
- Bhakti-yoga
- Reliance on God
07
- Jñāna-yoga
- Renunciation of egoity
- Karma-yoga
- Renunciation of desire
- Bhakti-yoga
- Renunciation of possessiveness
08
- Jñāna-yoga
- Erasing egoity
- Karma-yoga
- Purifying egoity
- Bhakti-yoga
- Transforming egoity
09
- Jñāna-yoga
- Useful for oneself
- Karma-yoga
- Useful for the world
- Bhakti-yoga
- Useful for God
10
- Jñāna-yoga
- Primacy of the Imperishable
- Karma-yoga
- Primacy of the perishable
- Bhakti-yoga
- Primacy of Puruṣottama, the Supreme Person
11
- Jñāna-yoga
- What was to be known has been known
- Karma-yoga
- What was to be done has been done
- Bhakti-yoga
- What was to be attained has been attained
12
- Jñāna-yoga
- Undivided rasa
- Karma-yoga
- Peaceful rasa
- Bhakti-yoga
- Infinite rasa
13
- Jñāna-yoga
- Ontological relationship
- Karma-yoga
- Eternal relationship
- Bhakti-yoga
- Intimate relationship of belonging
14
- Jñāna-yoga
- Unity with the Supreme Self
- Karma-yoga
- Nearness to the Supreme Self
- Bhakti-yoga
- Inseparability from the Supreme Self
15
- Jñāna-yoga
- Attainment of realization
- Karma-yoga
- Attainment of yoga
- Bhakti-yoga
- Attainment of love
16
- Jñāna-yoga
- Independence
- Karma-yoga
- Generosity
- Bhakti-yoga
- Intimacy
17
- Jñāna-yoga
- Established in one’s essential nature
- Karma-yoga
- Attraction to inert matter disappears
- Bhakti-yoga
- Attraction to God arises
18
- Jñāna-yoga
- Renunciation of doership
- Karma-yoga
- Renunciation of enjoyership
- Bhakti-yoga
- Renunciation of possessiveness
19
- Jñāna-yoga
- Happy in the happiness of the Self
- Karma-yoga
- Happy in the happiness of the world
- Bhakti-yoga
- Happy in God’s happiness
20
- Jñāna-yoga
- Doing nothing at all
- Karma-yoga
- Acting for the world
- Bhakti-yoga
- Acting for God
21
- Jñāna-yoga
- Surrendering to nature
- Karma-yoga
- Surrendering to the world
- Bhakti-yoga
- Surrendering to God
22
- Jñāna-yoga
- Detachment
- Karma-yoga
- Nonattachment
- Bhakti-yoga
- Loving attachment
23
- Jñāna-yoga
- Identification with the body is an obstacle
- Karma-yoga
- Desire is an obstacle
- Bhakti-yoga
- Turning away from God is an obstacle
24
- Jñāna-yoga
- Primacy of reflection
- Karma-yoga
- Primacy of effort
- Bhakti-yoga
- Primacy of faith
25
- Jñāna-yoga
- Actions are reduced to ashes
- Karma-yoga
- Actions become non-actions
- Bhakti-yoga
- Actions become divine
26
- Jñāna-yoga
- Desiring nothing
- Karma-yoga
- Fulfilling the desires of others
- Bhakti-yoga
- Merging one’s own desire into God’s desire
27
- Jñāna-yoga
- Regarding no one as one’s own
- Karma-yoga
- Regarding everyone as one’s own for service
- Bhakti-yoga
- Regarding God alone as one’s own
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