There is only one way to reach God. Follow what you like. You may say you want to follow the path of gyana . Read books. But to experience or know God is to know how to ascend. Or knowing the path
Or you want to do karma yoga – the path of renouncing the fruits of action. The word action – does not refer to what we do. Kriya does not refer to anything physical. It refers to the action of prana / or chi. Knowing that prana and making it ascend on the path is kriya yoga. Foolish people think it is worldly action
Or you may say you want to do Bhakti. Devotion to God Well with devotion, true devotion the prana begins to ascend full speed in the path. Reaching Sahastrar where you can experience God.
So what is the path ?
Sushumna. Vajra. Chitra. Brahmanadi. The inner most layer of sushumna.
It cuts our past karma. It severs our connection to bodily needs. To ego. Body consciousness. Very witty. No matter how you cut it you could say the road is sharp. Like a razors edge
This is what Yogananda said
Paramahansa Yogananda, in The Bhagavad Gita: God Talks With Arjuna
The Narrow Way
The Hindu scriptures compare the following of the spiritual path to walking on a razor’s edge. This refers not only to the necessity of following a virtuous God-centered life, but specifically to the erect, straight spine of meditation, the sole path through which one ascends to the realization of God and union with Him.*
*Jesus similarly spoke of the “narrow way,” esoterically referring to the ascent in meditation of the life force and consciousness through the gateway at the base of the spine (muladhara chakra) and the narrow passageway of the sushumna: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).
Bhavin