Which is the Best Path?

Karma
This path, the jnana marga or path of knowledge, is not the only means to attain ultimate salvation. Indeed, Hinduism very much holds that there are many paths to reach the same destination.

Bhakti
PATHS (MARGAS) Karma marga Jnana marga Bhakti marga Path of action (especially ritual action) Path of knowledge

Jnana
(meditation and analysis) Path of devotion (especially towards Krishna) Vedas Upanishads Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita introduces the path of devotion, or bhakti marga. One can attain salvation, in the context of this path, through selfless loving devotion to a chosen god. In the Bhagavad Gita this god is Krishna, although because all of
the gods in Hinduism are ultimately encompassed by the overarching divine powerhouse Brahman, bhakti directed at any god can lead to salvation.

Krishna and Radha Bhakti is often discussed in distinctly human terms, using human love as the model.

A parent’s love for a child, for instance, is the model for the devotee’s love of the god; a parent’s love is utterly selfless, absolute. Likewise, the love of a devotee for a god is also described in amorous terms.

Some of the best-known and most beloved stories in Hinduism involve the love “affair” between Krishna and Radha (a particularly beautiful example is the Gita Govinda, by the poet Jayadeva).

Krishna in these stories is a lovely young man who plays a bewitching flute. Radha is a beautiful young woman. She is, however, a human being. Gita Govinda manuscript (ca. 1500 CE) She abandons her worldly duty to be with Krishna.

The point of these stories is that although worldly duties are importance for the maintenance of society, love of the divine (here specifically Krishna) transcends the worldly dharma. Through such absolute love, one attains salvation through the grace of the god.