2. Definition of Dharma Absolute, Eternal Dharma (sanatana dharma) ‘ Nature , character , peculiar condition or essential quality’. E.g.: the dharma of sugar is to be sweet, of fire to be hot. The dharma of the Individual Soul (jiva) is to render service to the Supreme Soul Relative Dharma(s) ‘ That which sustains’. So any regulative system that supports the realization of one’s Absolute, eternal dharma is also a (relative) dharma.

9. Karma The discharge of the cycle of duties prescribed in the Vedas. Reached its apotheosis in the school of the karma-mimamsa. Motivated by personal desire  to attain material well-being by gaining control over natural processes . The level of karma embodies worldly action and absorption in material name and form. Gyana The pursuit of liberation from material energy - release from all karma. Renunciation of all personal desires. Cessation of all activity . Total absorption of the intellect in a radical theology of Negation ( via negativa ). Turns away from the world and action in it to seek liberation into a transcendence conceived as the negation of all name and form. Dissolution of individual identity in a mystical union with an Undifferentiated Absolute Spirit .

12. Degrees of Self-realization Katha Upanishad, Ch. III: 9 “ A man who has discrimination for his charioteer and holds the reins of the mind firmly, reaches the end of the road; and that is the supreme position of Vishnu .” 10—11 “ Beyond the senses are the objects; beyond the objects is the mind; beyond the mind, the intellect; beyond the intellect, the Great Atman; beyond the Great Atman, the Unmanifest; beyond the Unmanifest, the Purusha. Beyond the Purusha there is nothing: this is the end, the Supreme Goal.”