Yoga Systems: Bhakti Yoga - - Path of Devotion

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Yoga Systems: Bhakti Yoga - - Path of Devotion

"Variety vanishes in the realisation of the one without a second."

Bhakti yoga is the yogic pathway to self-realisation by catalysing and channeling your emotions into devotion or love with an attitude of total self-surrender.

Bhakti yoga is based on pure and selfless love, a strong sense of total surrender to the Supreme Intelligence guiding this universe and it comes straight from the heart.

But this attitude of surrender and love does not call for any complacence in action. Rather, your emotional fervor and enthusiasm is productively channeled into a feeling of love for another person, a favorite place, a rewarding type of work and so on and one may also develop a feeling of love for all humanity.

Prayer, chanting of mantras both verbally and mentally, singing of hymns, study of sacred stories, service of devotees, worship and meditation on one's chosen form of divinity are some of the practices of bhakti yoga.

In this bhakti yoga tradition, the ancient Indian scriptures, the Sanskrit language and the symbols of the cosmic being are commonly used to orient the mind towards cosmic truth and make it concentrated and finally allow it to transcend itself and attain oneness with the Universal Spirit.

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