Jnana

देहबुद्ध्या तु दासोऽस्मि जीवबुद्ध्या त्वदंशकः। आत्मबुद्ध्या त्वमेवाहमिति मे निश्चिता मतिः॥

“Lord, while I identify myself with my body, I am Your servant.
When I consider myself as Jiva, I am a part of You.
But when I look upon myself as the Atma, I am You.”

The Advaita Vedanta path of Jnana Yoga is quite extreme in that it requires the negation of everything that is not the Self, including family and attachments. This path in the Shankara sense is not the right for me in this life. But I do think that the threefold practice is useful for basically any subject:

• Sravana, Hearing
• Manana, Reflection
• Nididhyasana, Meditation and Contemplation

I divide my study into four things:

• Each of the four yogas has immense literature all with the same goal of understanding the Self. Using the literature to dive deep is a way of apply Jnana to the other paths.
• Study of Vedanta and the Prasthanatrayi of Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads and Brahma Sutra and do it with a comparioson of the different schools of Vedanta. While Advaita seems to have a monopoly on the Enligtenment oriented West audience, there are many other schools of Vedanta all with their own ideas of the Self.
• Sanskrit and the study of the language is a way to understand the literature.
• Science, Philiosophy, Psychology need to be studied to perform the original goal of Advaita which is to negate the unreal from the real.