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The law of karma is very precise.
Everything is taken into consideration,
including one's ignorance. Thus improper acts
performed by those who know better bring harsher
reactions than the same acts performed by those who
do not know such acts are improper.

Silence
We are the source of the animating force of life,
the source of all creation. The spirit may be called Brahman,
paramatman, Self, unified field or whatever you prefer, but it
is simplicity itself. We are That. To realize this pure consciousness,
our essential nature, one has to spend time with ourselves.
In the silence of the mind, one communicates and communes
with the cosmic mind (and the spirit). The spirit whispers to us
in the silence. Let us be quiet and listen.

Yoga Paths

Yoga Paths, An Overview Of Different Schools and Traditions

Yoga comes from connecting to God, just as the word religion means in western context. There are many schools or even called sampradajas with different forms of yoga. All teachings guide an embodied spirit in a (non)-personal relationship to God.

The supreme godhead resides in every being in its heart.

The native yoga-paths are a part of the vedic-culture we refere to today a hinduism, but the real importance of vedic culture seems to be that it has enabled native yoga-paths to stay in the Indian sub-continent unchanged longer than they have in other locations. It seems as if these philosophies were known all over the world.

This overview below may help you to find your own path. No form of yoga is better than the other, there are different paths as individuals exist. The common of all forms is the reconnecting, the religio or even yoga with God.

HATHA YOGA (none)

It is a yoga concerned with physical and energetical purification and training. Its goal is to bring the physical body into a perfect state of health so the soul has a fitting vehicle of expression to work through. It embraces many practices, including physical postures and breathing excercises (pranayama) which alos act upon the physical nervious system and etheric body which is considered a corollary aspect of the physical body and brings the vital energies of the physical and etheric bodies under conscious control.

KRIYA YOGA:

ASTANGA YOGA (eightfold yoga-path):

Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama

Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi

SIDDHA YOGA

Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityananda ()
Siddha Yoga (SYDA) ()

RAJA YOGA
SAHAJA YOGA:
JNANA YOGA: Jnana Yoga is the yoga of the philosopher and thinker who wants to go beyond the visible, material reality. The Jana Yogi finds God through knowledge. Jnana Yoga is summed up in the Upanishads by the following statement: "In the method of reintegration through knowledge, the mind is ever bound to the ultimate end of existence which is liberation This method leads to all attainments and is ever auspicious." [...]
-- Excerpt of "Hidden Mysteries" by Joshua David Stone
SURAT SHABD OR NADA YOGA
KUNDALINI YOGA
TANTRA YOGA
ASPARSHA YOGA
SANKIRTAN YOGA
SHIVA YOGA
TARAKA YOGA
LAMBIKA YOGA
SAPTA YOGA: Sapta Yoga is based on the ancient Yogic text, the "Gheranda Samhita." It is both a spiritual practice and a therapeutic art, successful in removing the causes of numerous diseases highly resistant to orthodox Western healing methods. It is taught by Yogacharya Dr. Sushil Bhattacharya, director of the Patanjali Yoga Center in Kathmandu, Nepal.
INTEGRAL YOGA
YOGA OF SYNTHESIS (Karma-, Bhakti-, Jnana and Raja Yoga)