Can one transcend the modes by processes other than devotional service?

Question Can we transcend the modes by other processes of spiritual life apart from devotional service or only by devotional service? Answer the process of devotional service is the easiest way to attain transcendence and even in the Jnana section of the Bhagavad Gita, the last 6 chapters 13 to 18 Krishna mentions devotional service as the recommended way.

in 1426 so now here avyabhicarena is not necessarily ahaituki one can be undistracted in the devotional service because of one's determination one's intent desire to transcend the modes but one need not be unmotivated unmotivated is if one simply wants to please Krishna then one is unmotivated so the devotional service may be undistracted avyabhicari but it may not be unmotivated so the jnanis and yogis can also attain transcendence if Vishwanatha Chakravarti especially emphatic about this point and he quotes various verses of the Gita for that purpose he says all processes of spiritual advancement require some element of bhakti by which a person can attain transcendence through those processes it means all other processes require devotion as a little part of them so he talks about three kinds of bhakti he says there is shuddha bhakti or parabhakti then there is pradhanibuddha bhakti and there is gunibuddha bhakti so shuddha bhakti is hundred percent just devotional service and devotion is the intention for the service and pradhanibuddha bhakti is the bhakti in which bhakti is the pradhan the principle element and along with that there may be some other elements also being practiced for example gyan may be practiced yoga also may be practiced on the other hand there is gunibuddha bhakti gunibuddha bhakti is the process of bhakti in which the influences of material nature are still evident so those influences are in terms of the processes of gyana or yoga being prominent that means in pradhanibuddha bhakti the element of bhakti is prominent its more than 50% whereas in gunibuddha bhakti the element of bhakti is less than 50% and all these processes lead eventually to spiritual advancement and to some kind of liberation or the other so by gyana and yoga also one can go beyond the modes but it is not that gyana and yoga alone can take one beyond the modes gyana and yoga also require bhakti within them however the bhakti that is practiced by these jnanis or yogis is not necessarily bhakti as the means for bhakti as the ends that is what a bhakta's attitude is bhakti is the means and bhakti is the ends a devotee wants to serve krishna so that he can continue to serve krishna eternally whereas the jnanis and yogis use bhakti as a tool to attain their particular goal so krishna talks about this in 6.14 and 15 when he says that prashantatma vigatbhir brahmachari vratesthita manasa inyamya machitto yuktasita matparaha yunjanevam sadatmanam yogi yunyata manasa shantim nirvana paramam matsamstham adhigacchati now within the internal flow of the gita this yoga that is being practiced is not necessarily devotional yoga and here when the machitta is being explained certainly the mind is fixed on krishna but that is not necessarily with krishna as the goal in patanjali's yoga sutra also it is mentioned that ishvara pranidhana once you surrender to ishvara that is a primary element of the practice of yoga but although ishvara pranidhana is mentioned it is not clearly mentioned in the yoga sutras that ishvara himself is the ultimate goal of yoga practice the yoga sutras of patanjali they give hints towards ishvara but they do not describe that ishvara in complete detail and they focus primarily on the negation of material emotions yogas chitta nrti nirodhah nirodhah means stoppage chitta vrtti the movement of consciousness should be stopped that is the essential definition of yoga now similarly in the process of jnana krishna talks about how bhakti is required even for the jnanis is talking essentially about that the previous chapter was about the three modes and this kind of critical analysis threadbare of material nature is characteristic of the process of jnana but krishna is answering arjuna's question about how one can transcend the three modes and krishna replies that it is by bhakti so from these references in the 6th chapter and the 14th chapter we can understand and krishna also in the 13th chapter talks about in 13.19 he says that actually that it is my devotees who can know all this so he has just before that talked about the various processes of and he says that it is my devotees who can understand all this that means devotional service is integral for a proper understanding of the elements of jnana that a jnani needs to understand and then for a jnani to eventually attain liberation in my systematic gita overview in about 100 hours as well as in 50 hours which is also available in the site the internal thread of the gita has been systematically discussed and there we can understand how it is explained how actually the processes of transcendence are not impotent they also give result but there has to be an element of bhakti for them to deliver their result so in that sense bhakti is the means to the highest liberation bhakti is the easiest means to liberation but bhakti is not the only means to liberation although bhakti has to be the element of any means to liberation thank you.