This is the renunciation of the Bhakta: this mighty attraction in the direction of God makes all other attraction vanish for him; this mighty infinite love of God which enters his heart leaves no place for any other love to live there. How can it be otherwise? Bhakti fills his heart with the divine waters of the ocean of love,which is God Himself.

Religion is Renunciation: Step by step: How to leave to go the lower enjoyments of senses and not stop at the intellectual enjoyments, but reach the most finer joy – Love and Devotion to God, the Para-Bhakti Yoga state…All preparations to it is the purification of the soul.

“The intense pleasure in meditating on God took away the binding effects of her good deeds. Then her intense misery of soul in not attaining unto Him washed off all her sinful propensities; and then she became free.”the various passions, and feelings, and emotions in the human heart are not wrong in themselves; only they have to be carefully controlled and given a higher and

We must always remember that external practices have value only as help to develop internal purity. The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.The man who will mercilessly cheat widows and orphans, and do the vilest deeds for money is worse than any brute, even if

BHAKTI-YOGA is a real, genuine search after the Lord, a search beginning, continuing, and ending in Love. One single moment of the madness of extreme love to God brings us eternal freedom. “Bhakti,” says Nārada in his explanation of the Bhakti-aphorisms, “is intense love to God.”—“When a man gets it, he loves all, hates none; he becomes satisfied forever.”

The thing to be considered is what we know as Ishta-Nishthā. One who aspires to be a Bhakta must know that “so many opinions are so many ways.” He must know that all the various sects of the various religions are the various manifestations of the glory of the same Lord.Not only this, the Bhakta must take care not to hate, or even to criticise,

The point to be considered is the worship of Pratikas or of things more or less satisfactory as substitutes for God, and the worship of Pratimās or images. —“Joining the mind with devotion to that which is not Brahman, taking it to be Brahman,” says Bhagavān Rāmānuja.Now, worshipping Ishwara and Him alone is Bhakti; the worship of anything else, Deva or Pitri, or any other

Who is Ishwara?! Ishwara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or, in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishwara.Brahman is as the clay or substance out of which an infinite variety of articles are fashioned. As clay, they are all one; but form or manifestation differentiates them.

Bhakta through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception.He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God, higher than everything else?