Jnana yoga "Jnana" is knowledge, and refers to any cognitive event that is correct and true over time. It particularly refers to knowledge inseparable from the total experience of its object, especially about reality (non-theistic schools) or supreme being (theistic schools). In Hinduism, it is knowledge which gives Moksha, or spiritual release while alive (jivanmukti) or after death (videhamukti). According to Bimal Matilal, "jnana yoga" in Advaita Vedanta connotes both primary and secondary sense of its meaning, that is "self-consciousness, awareness" in the absolute sense and relative "intellectual understanding" respectively. According to Jones and Ryan, "jnana" in "jnana yoga" context is better
Sri Devananda Gaudiya Math building. He later purchased an extensive piece of land on which he established a matha with a beautiful temple. The following deities preside in the five chambers of the temple and samadhi mandir respectively: Temple Samadhi The temple's nine towers each represent one limb of nava-vidha-bhakti, the nine types of devotional service. The matha is divided into the following nine parts (khandas): These sections are divided on the basis of activities favourable to bhakti, which are to be accepted and those unfavourable which are to be avoided. Jnana and karma which are devoid of bhakti are always to be rejected