Masters are beyond 'paths' and any sectarianism. If a Master becomes publicly known as teaching a certain 'path', it is the borgs (uneducated) creating dogmas around the Master and making a religion out of it. This is the reflective mirror of the state of human affairs since we forgot when it first happened.
'Paths' are layed out for humans to be followed. Yoga, as in Patanjali Sutra is named as the 'royal path'. Yogananda named it the airplane-route to God. This has been multiplying since, and the ones who know, do not necessarily 'speak'. The ones who speak, are not necessarily Masters. It takes a devotee to know a Master, and it takes a Master, to recognise a (true) devotee.
Henry I perceive in the larger scheme of things you are right. Although I did notice you mentioned the Royal PATH here as well. For many of us it helps to follow a path to get to a destination even though as you say it can easily become a dogma. I think of the path of Kriya and how it slows my respiration and simultaneously the thought processes slow down making it much easier to slip into the meditative state at various depths. I often also use the ‘path’ of Iam created by Amma which is very helpful to me when my mind is more agitated or I have a lot of external commotion in my immediate experience.
