Core tenet of Hinduismheld by most
Many paths, one goal: knowledge, devotion, action, discipline.
Jnana, bhakti, karma, raja — the yogas are parallel routes, chosen by temperament.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Hinduism's deepest structural feature: knowledge, devotion, action, and discipline are all valid yogas, suited to different temperaments. The tradition institutionalized what most religions discover late — that people differ, and a single door serves only some of them.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Truth is one; the wise call it by many names.
Rig Veda 1.164.46
In whatever way they approach me, in that same way I receive them; all paths lead to me.
Bhagavad Gita 4:11
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Mantra and mala.
Buddhism · rite
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Sheikh Farid and Bhagat Namdev — the Sufi and the calico-printer.
Sikhism · figure
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Devotion is the surest path.
Vaishnavism
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It is a technique, not a religion — and a court disagreed.
Transcendental Meditation
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Truth has many sides.
Jainism
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The Shechinah — the presence that went into exile.
Judaism · figure
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