Jnana and Bhakti

There is a popular belief that Jnana marga is dry, Bhakti marga is enjoyable.
Prabhu : The understanding of what is jnana what is Bhakti has to come from Guru.
Self learning has pitfalls. Most of the learning about Jnana/bhakti happens through books or half baked wisdom. It is misleading. Even for Bhakti marga one has to follow an enlightened teacher.
The difficulty is there are few really wise teachers and access is very difficult. The moment there is a really enlightened Guru, there is no Marga. The marga ends and wisdom shines.
If one gets a enlightened teacher in Bhakti marga, one will have a vision of deity fully and no more marga remains.
Jnana and Bhakti both are same. It is always for Inner Self. To start with people are given outer form. Getting stuck to outer form becomes great hurdle in spiritual life. Enlightened teacher of Bhakti will remove that ignorance and show deity in the heart.
myself: then what is jnana, there wont be deities in jnana ?
Prabhu : We have manas and chitta. Manas and chitta requires deities to purify. Once that happens jnana shines in buddhi. Outer deity has to become inner deity. That is what I taught in Ganesha meditation. That is what I will be teaching in other Chakras. Jnana is mainly for Ajnachakra.
myself : Should we visualise a form in chakra ?
Prabhu : Depending on your ability, you can visualise form, qualities,colour and feeling.
These are generated conciously for the purpose of meditation. Ganesha is a form given to Parabrahma for the purpose of meditation and Bhakti.

Prabhu : To become a good teacher, it takes lot of tapasya.
myself : pls tell me what is tapasya
Prabhu : Tapasya is unconcious spiritual practices you do before you get sadguru or enlightenment. It is like intense searching in a place you dont know. Because of your intense searching which happened, you will be able to guide others later.