Bhakti Yoga Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion Love in its varied aspects is the motive force behind all the actions of living beings. But love takes its highest form when directed towards the …
Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love – Swami Vivekananda
It is impossible to express the nature of this supreme and absolute ideal of love in human language. Even the highest flight of human imagination is incapable of comprehending it in all its infinite …
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Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 5, Verse 4
साङ्ख्ययोगौ पृथग्बाला: प्रवदन्ति न पण्डिता: |एकमप्यास्थित: सम्यगुभयोर्विन्दते फलम् || 4|| sānkhya-yogau pṛithag bālāḥ pravadanti na paṇḍitāḥekamapyāsthitaḥ samyag ubhayor vindate …
The First Steps – Bhakti Yoga | Swami Vivekananda
The philosophers who wrote on Bhakti defined it as extreme love for God. Why a man should love God is the question to be solved; and until we understand that, we shall not be able to grasp the subject …
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Bhakti or Devotion – Swami Vivekananda
The idea of a Personal God has obtained in almost every religion, except a very few. With the exception of the Buddhist and the Jain, perhaps all the religions of the world have the idea of a Personal …
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The Ishta – Swami Vivekananda
The theory of Ishta, which I briefly referred to before, is a subject requiring careful attention because with a proper understanding of this, all the various religions of the world can be understood. …