The science of yoga is all about making a person transcend the five sense organs and know one’s ultimate nature. In order to do this, it is important that he has the necessary energy support. Sadhguru explains: “That which is not in your experience cannot be taught to you intellectually. It can only be taught to you by taking you to a different dimension of experience. To take a person from one dimension of experience to another, you need a tool or a device, which is of a higher level of intensity and energy than you are right now. That device is what we call as the guru.”

In the Yogic tradition, adepts have identified four paths that a seeker may take to attain Liberation. These are the only four realities in your life: body, mind, emotion, and energy. If you use your emotions and try to reach the ultimate, we call this bhakti yoga, the path of devotion. If you use your intelligence and try to reach the ultimate, we call this gnana yoga, the path of intelligence. If you use your body, or physical action to reach the ultimate, we call this karma yoga, the path of action. If you transform your energies and try to reach the ultimate, we call this kriya yoga, that means internal action.” As a Spiritual Master, Sadhguru guides seekers on all four paths. He says, “In one person the heart may be dominant, in another person the head may be dominant, in yet another person the hands may be dominant, but everyone is a combination of these four, so you need a combination of these four. Only when it is mixed in the right proportion, it works for you. That is why, on the spiritual path, there is so much stress on a Live Guru. He mixes the right cocktail for you. Otherwise, there is no punch.”