The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda's translation of Ramanuja's Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Jnana Yoga & Karma yoga are complementary - 3-8
Sri Bhagavan Uvacha
Lokesmin dvividha nishtha pura prokta maya anagha I
Jnanayogena sankhyanam karmayogena yoginam II sloka 3
श्री भगवान उवाच
लोकेस्मिन द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मया अनघ ।
ज्ञानयोगेन संख्यानं कर्मयोगेन योगिनं ।। श्लोक ३
The Lord said
In this world a two-fold way was of yore laid down by Me, O sinless one; by Jnana yoga for teh sankhyas and by Karma yoga for the yogins.
You have not understood properly what I taught you before. In this world, full of people with varying degrees of qualifications, I have taught in the days of yore, two ways, that of knowledge (Jnana yoga) and that of works, according to the qualification of the aspirants. There is no contradiction in this. It is not possible for all people of this world, in whom the desire for release has arisen, to become capable immediately for the practice of jnana yoga. But he who performs the worship of the supreme person without desire for fruits and thereby gets completely rid of inner impurities and keeps his senses unagitated - he becomes competent for the path of knowledge.
Firm devotion to Jnana yoga is taught only to the sankhyas ie., those persons who are competent to follow the discipline of the knowledge of the self; and karma yoga to the yogins ie., to those competent for the path of the work. Sankhya means buddhi and those who are endowed with buddhi (intellectual or mental disposition) having only the self for its object, are sankhyans. Therefore those who are unfit for this are qualified for karma yoga. Those who are possessed of Buddhi which is agitated by objects of the senses, are the persons qualified for karma yoga, where as those whose buddhi is not thus agitated, are qualified for jnana yoga. Therefore nothing contradictory and confusing has been taught.
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