7.1.4.2 The path of knowledge of the nature of reality, known in the East as jnana yoga, is the foundation of this Implicate Technology meditative system. Calling on the inherent desire to understand the nature of reality and the true nature of one’s experience of life, the way of knowledge leads to enlightenment through unremitting dedication to understanding every aspect of one’s life as a meaningful part of a unified whole. The unified whole which is reality can be understood from one viewpoint as a process apparent only to the transcendentally realised mind, and from another viewpoint as the manifest form of God.

Possessed by the desire to understand and integrate into reality, the individual mind first analyses itself and then analyses the nature of the external world. As the mind’s capacity to function at transcendental levels of consciousness awakens, the underlying nature of mind and matter becomes apparent. Both the individual mind which experiences and the apparently objective world which is experienced are understood in their true nature as relative manifestations of the one absolute mind which alone is.

The way of devotion and the way of knowledge are two different approaches to the same goal: both paths lead to transcendental realisation of the unified and integrated nature of perceptible reality. Once the illusory sense of specific individuality has been transcended, it a only a matter of personal taste whether reality is experienced as unity with God or as an inherently unified process. To the transcendentally realised mind, capable of experiencing reality simultaneously from relative and absolute viewpoints, the difference between the way of knowledge and the way of devotion is simply one of individual temperament and perspective.