Unalloyed devotion to Krishna transcends yoga, philosophy, Vedic study, and austerity as the supreme path to God.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ...yati māṃ yogaḥ na sāìkhyaṃ dharma uddhava na svādhyāyas tapas tyāgaḥ yathā bhaktir mamorjitā [Cc Madhya 20.137] [The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, said: ’My dear Uddhava, neither through aṣṭāìga-yoga [the mystic yoga system to control the senses], nor through impersonal monism or an analytical study of the Absolute Truth, nor through study of the Vedas, nor through austerities, charity or acceptance of sannyāsa can one satisfy Me as much as by developing unalloyed devotional service unto Me.] So Lord Caitanya explained to the poverty-stricken man that simile. The astrologer is foretelling about the poverty-stricken man that "You are a very rich man's son. Your father has got so much wealth, but you do not know; therefore you are suffering." To be poor man in this world, material world, is a curse for ordinary, general people. Those who are spiritually enriched, they have nothing to do with this poverty or richness of this material world.
But those who are under the concept of material life, poverty is a curse for them. So living entity, they are not meant for being poverty-stricken, because they are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, the supreme proprietor. Therefore he has, by his birthright, to enjoy the God's property. That is the law. But under spell of illusion, we have forgotten our relationship with the supreme father; therefore we are suffering.
This is the diagnosis. Now we have to find out how to go home, back to go..., back to home, back to Godhead. That should be the mission of human life. Never mind under what circumstances and why we are in contact with this material world, but we should come to this point by the instruction of the astrologer-like Vedic literature. Just like the astrologer is giving hint to the poor man, similarly, the Vedic literature is also giving us hint, astrological instruction, that we can become the richest by reviving our lost relationship with our father. So that process of reviving, there are different paths, different rituals.
So Lord Caitanya says that no other method... Not only... Not Caitanya, but the Vedic literature says. So He is quoting one evidence from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: na sādhayati māṃ yogaḥ.
The Lord says that "The yoga process cannot achieve success in reaching Me." Na sāìkhyam. Sāìkhyam means philosophical speculation. "That also cannot reach Me." Na dharma. Dharma means religious principles. Uddhava: "O My dear Uddhava." This is an instruction just like Lord Kṛṣṇa gave instruction to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gītā; similarly, He gave instruction to one of His cousin-brother whose name was Uddhava.
And that is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So in course of that instruction He says, "My dear Uddhava, yoga cannot achieve Me, neither sāìkhya." Sāìkhya means...Yoga means, real yoga means "connect," "plus." Real yoga means "plus," "addition," just like in mathematics we have got addition and subtraction. So at the present moment we are in subtraction—God minus myself. I have no sense of God; therefore I am in minus condition. So yoga means God plus I.
That is the real meaning of yoga. So long I was God-minus; now God-plus. But you must always remember: in the spiritual, absolute sense, God plus me He is also God, and God minus me He is also God. When I am minus, that does not mean God has lost some of His capacity.