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yourself with God, and after the connection is made then you will get God to play in your consciousness and modify you.
The gnana yogin, on the other hand, says if you study the scriptures and know the relation, as stated in those scriptures, between you and God, or if you know the tattvas and if you merely can go on contemplating on, or reciting or repeating those sacred texts, you will get the connection with God, and after that everything will be easy. According to bhakti yoga, they say, if you can do the devotionals like - Sravanam, Keerthanam, Mananam and Nivedanam and so on, you will get connection with God however blind you are in respect of other matters. And once the connection with God is attained then I think our problems are solved. Some others say, like the Hatha yogis, that if only you can control your body, its postures, and perform pranayama and the other mudras, then you will get connection with God; of course it is a difficult path, but nothing great can be attained without some difficulty or effort. And so we have been accustomed to very effortful individual paths. So much so, by the time we ever think of attaining the goal, we are so tired that we think of leaving the whole thing and leave ourselves to fate and seek what is called Saranagati or surrender. So individual efforts, even when fully undertaken, had to be performed for quite a long time and perhaps for several generations and several lives. Bahunam Janmanam Ante Gnanavan mam Prapadyate". A man must take several lives before he becomes a Gnani and then alone he falls prostrate before God and surrenders unto Him. But if surrender can be taken at once, then most probably you can give up these karma yogas and gnana yogas and bhakti yogas because you would have got God almost by the time you surrender to Him.
So this path of Saranagati was discovered by the ancients as the simplest path, provided you are Gnani enough to realize, or intelligent enough to realize, that if you can surrender to God directly (at once) and if you can fall at his feet, then God is to be had without all these human egoistic efforts involving so much of trouble, money, expense, and even life. But you know again this Saranagati which was such an easy method did not follow it up. You did Saranagati but there are somethings required. God was willing to enter into you, but you did not receive God into your heart. You tried to escape from your misery but would not receive God in your heart. In fact