PARAKUNNATH SREE VETTAKKORUMAKAN PAYYAN KSHETHRAM (TEMPLE), AROLI, KANNUR, KERALA: Bhakti yoga is a spiritual path focused on the cultivation of love and devotion toward God

Thursday 15 December 2016

Bhakti yoga is a spiritual path focused on the cultivation of love and devotion toward God

Bhakti yoga is a spiritual path focused on the cultivation of love and devotion toward God. It is practice solely motivated by the sincere, loving desire to please God, rather than the hope of divine reward or the fear of divine punishment. Bhakti yoga is considered the easiest way to attain a spiritually liberated state. We cannot be happy without satisfying this desire to love, and we will not be able to perfectly fulfil this desire without permitting its expansion to the most inclusive extent. Love can become all embracing only when we understand that God is the supreme beloved. So Bhakti Yoga is connecting with God, and reestablishing our relationship with Him, through acts of love and service as described in Bhagavad Gita.

"He whose mind is fixed on My personal form, always engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith, is considered by Me to be most perfect. But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, fixed, and immovable-the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth-by controlling the various senses and being equally disposed to everyone, such persons, engaged in the welfare of all, at last achieve Me.
For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me, engaged in devotional service and always meditating, fixing his mind upon Me, for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death. Just fix your mind in me. Thus you will live in Me always, without a doubt. Follow the regulated principles of Bhakti Yoga and try to work for Me, you will come to the perfect stage.

One who neither grasps pleasure or grief, who neither laments nor desires, is very dear to Me. He who follows this imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engages himself with faith, making Me the supreme goal, is very, very dear to Me. Try to act giving up all results of your work. If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.!!"