Raamaanuja on BG III 35

3.35 Therefore Karma Yoga is better than Jnana Yoga. For, it forms
one's own duty, since it is natural to one and easy to perform, and
though defective, is free from liability to interruption and fall. 
Jnana Yoga, on the other hand, though performed well for some time, 
constitutes the duty of another, as it is difficult to practise for 
one conjoined with Prakrti.
It is therefore liable to interruption. For a person who lives 
practising Karma Yoga --- which is his duty because he is qualified 
for it --- even death without success in one birth does not matter. 
For, in the next birth with the help of the experience already gained 
in the previous birth, it will be possible for him to perform Karma 
Yoga without any impediments.

Jnana Yoga is fraught with fear because of the possibility of errors 
for anyone who is conjoined to Prakrti. It is another's duty, on 
account of it being not easily adoptable by him.








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