Above karmi are jnani. Gyani is a thinker, a philosopher. What is the meaning of life, why all this is necessary? What do we work for? Why life is so complicated? Why, you need work hard just to eat a piece of bread? Why world is not created in a different way? He thinks about life. That is, who is jnanis? This is disappointed karmi. For him is difficult activity is to work, washing, cooking. Always the same. Routine, boredom. And he no longer wants this. There is no happiness. More problems than happiness.
The happiness of karmis is compared to a man who found honey in the forest and eats it, but at the same time a bee swarms him. Here such pleasure. He feels the taste is sweet, but so much anxiety, that he can not concentrate on the taste. There is another example. A man runs through the jungle. He runs because he is driven by a rabid elephant of his own desires. And ahead of him lies a tiger, who personifies reactions, karma. And here he falls into a well and thinks that he has escaped from an elephant and a tiger. But at the bottom of the well there is a huge snake of time, ready to swallow him.
A person does not reach the bottom of the well, because he is hanging on the protruding roots of a tree with clothing. He hangs - there, above the tiger and the elephant, from below the snake opened its mouth. The man is in the middle. And above this pit grows a large, spreading tree, it has a hollow with honey. Honey from there drips just on the cheek of this man. And imagine, he hangs over this serpent, on these roots, and suddenly honey touches his cheek: "Oh! How wonderful I'm situated here . Not so bad . I can enjoy something. "
Vedas talk about this: every person is on the verge of death. He is driven by desires, there are some enemies, there are worries, there is time - everything works against him. But some drops of happiness fall and he thinks: "Oh, everything is fine .There is an account in the bank. There are plans to buy something . Everything is fine". This is karmi. And he is thinking: "Let's understand everything better , let's study this world properly. " For example, Diogenes. He left people, sat down in a barrel and thought there. Gyani is like monk. Monk comes out from word "mono", one and from the word "muni" - a thinker, a sage. But he must be alone.
Karmi is working. Gyani, philosophers are forbidden to work. Work will confuse, distract his thoughts from the search for the meaning of life. He must be detached from the world. And when he thinks about creation, he will study all the philosophical books, he will come to a conclusion. Veda knows what kind of conclusion such a person will make. The conclusion is this: "Now I know that I do not know anything." Gyani can guess that there is a platform of eternity, so its main idea is to realize eternity. If the philosopher does not think about eternity, then this is not a philosopher. This is not a philosopher, not a scientist. A scientist is one who tries to understand the difference between consciousness and matter. Such as Socrate. Socrate is a vivid example of jnani. He distinguished matter and spirit. It is known that he was sentenced to death for the fact that he knew too much. People of power could not understand for whom Socrates? Socrates was neither a politician nor an economist. He represented universal principles. For him it was equal who is before him - a simple man or nobleman. He always spoke the truth. Socrates was ordered to drink a bowl of wine with poison. His disciples were in shock, and Socrates did not even change his face. He continued to joke, to tell different stories. He quietly drank the poison, and then told that he felt like he was passing away. The disciples asked: "Teacher, what to do with you after you die ... With your body?". "A! - he laughed, - First catch me, and with the body you can do whatever you want! ». He distinguished: "I am not the body, I am the consciousness". This is the result of deep reflection.
Further. When a person realizes that there is a pure consciousness, he rises higher, to the level of yoga. "Yoga" means control of the mind. If at the jnana level one has to meditate on the whole universe, then here he must concentrate on one object, on the energy of eternity.