Progressing Beyond The 80th Floor - Prabhupada 0710

690426 - Lecture Engagement - Boston

Just like karma-yoga. You can approach, you can make progress to the first or second floor. Similarly, by jñāna-yoga, you can make progress to the fiftieth floor. And similarly, by dhyāna-yoga, you can make progress up to the eightieth floor. But by bhakti-yoga, you can go to the highest platform.

This is also very nicely explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55). "If you want to know Me cent percent, then come to this bhakti-yoga." And this bhakti-yoga means this śravaṇam. The first thing is śravaṇam and kīrtanam. You simply chant and hear, simple process.