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    Challenges→Yogic practices such as meditation, devotional practices, ascetic austerities, and ethical development serve as indirect means to liberation.

    Demoting devotional and ethical practices to indirect status systematically privileges jñāna in a way that marginalizes traditions for whom devotion is epistemically and soteriologically primary.

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    Devotional practices(as contrasted with intellectual knowledge)
    Religious or spiritual activities focused on expressing love, reverence, or dedication to a deity or sacred ideal, such as prayer, ritual worship, or meditation.
    Epistemically primary(as used in epistemology (philosophy of knowledge))
    Something that is the most fundamental or reliable source of knowledge; something we can know first and most directly.
    Ethical practices(as a spiritual path)
    Actions and habits aimed at living according to moral principles, such as kindness, honesty, and treating others well.
    Indirect status(as contrasted with direct/primary importance)
    Being treated as a secondary or supporting role rather than being central or primary; being valued only as a means to something else.
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    (as describing how traditions get treated unequally)
    To push something to the edges or treat it as less important; to exclude or minimize the significance of something.
    Soteriologically primary(as used in soteriology (the study of salvation/liberation))
    Being the main or most important way to achieve spiritual liberation or salvation; treating a practice as the most direct path to being saved or enlightened.
    jñāna(Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā holds that jñāna is invariably veridical)
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