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BHAKTI

Bhakti (devotion) is not an experience, It IS a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent.

Bhakti is the strongest motive force that sadhana can have and the best means for all else that has to come.

Bhakti Yoga : The Path of Devotion aims at the enjoyment of the supreme Love and Bliss and utilises normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a play of the Lord, with our human life as its final stage, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revelation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful.

Mental Bhakti is simply worship in the thought and idea without love in the heart. Vital Bhakti is egoistic, usually full of claims and demands on the Divine and revolting when they are not satisfied. Psychic Bhakti which gives itself asks for nothing but the Divine, is always turned to the Divine alone.