Professor R. D. Ranade it was who said for the first time, I think, that Jñāna is ‘a process, and not an event’, and thereby dismissed the conception of ‘Jñānottara Karma’, that is, the conception of doing actions after one has gone to the end of Jñāna, as erroneous. I think that the whole of the spiritual life also is a continuous process, a stream made up of seven currents, none of which we can eliminate without crippling the growth of that life itself. Some of these currents are visible to the eye, some understandable and discernible by the intellect, and some are to be presumed as necessary, though, in the end, they too will be discovered as existing throughout the spiritual life on account of intuitive experience. Like the colours of the rainbow, these currents also pass imperceptibly into other currents; and then it becomes very difficult to say at what point one loses its exclusive and independent characteristics and participates in those of others. Ultimately, there will come a stage in the development of spiritual life when all its aspects will shed their gross and visible features and mingle with each other so inextricably that all of them will make one indivisible Jñāna-Gangā. Thus it will be only our short sight or enthusiasm which will make us declare that one or the other of these seven aspects is alone sufficient to lead us to Godhead. We never hesitate to say that a beam of light is one only, though when it passes through a prism, it is decomposed and seen as a spectrum or a band of seven colours. Even so, to an external observer of the spiritual life, or to a novice on the spiritual path, Karma, Nīti, Bhakti, Jñāna, Dhyāna, Kṛpā and Vairāgya may appear to be different from each other and as having an exclusive function of its own, but from the view-point of a realized soul they can never be separated and resorted to in isolation from others without damaging the integral spiritual life. How can Karma, for instance, which is not supported by any of the remaining six aspects of spiritual life, be said to enable one to become a Karma-yogi in the real sense of the term?