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BHAKTI YOGA

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The seventh study. The Yoga of one pointed devotion to one's chosen ideal.

The Christian religion is based primarily on this study. It is a study in which the student loves madly, even with a frenzy, his ideal conception of God in either a manifested state or non-manifested.

In most cases it usually someone like Jesus, Ramana, Yogananda or Ramakrishna - or others that have been placed on this earth to allow Divine Grace to flow through them.

Bhakti is Love and Devotion: "My Lord give me only your love, that I may love you all the more. You are the doer, I am merely your servant. Take from me any powers that may detract from my love for Thee. I think of Thee all the time. I exist only because of you - and that existence Is for you only.

I am ready to sit with you and will come when you will have me. I await your invitation. For now I can only love you. I cry out for you at all times. I see you everywhere working out your wonderful dreams of Maya, but I am never caught up in them. How can I be, when I know it is you who are the creator of all. It's even you who gives me my love for you. Increase it until my love knows no bounds. I care nothing for this world - only for You. Whatever task you give I do joyfully. Sing out sweet Lord So that I may hear your Love Song at the door of my consciousness. Don't let me enter trance states so that I lose sight of you. Let others have their Samadhis and their joys. Just increase my love for you until I burst apart, into a million pieces of love-bliss."

Bhakti, like the other Yogas has certain states that one passes through whether one wants to or not.

The first state is called Bhava, or peace. The second is Bhava Mukta, or the sweet mood. A mood that stays forever with the devotee.

The next is Prema, ecstatic love of the most Divine kind.

Finally one arrives at the state of SatChitAnanda or the direct experience of God Union. At this point the Bhakti becomes the Gnani. The two Yogas which started out so differently become one.

The center associated with Bhakti is the seventh chakra, the pituitary gland.

Feel free to continue reading about the other Yogas:

1. Hatha Yoga

2. Gnana Yoga

3. Prana Yoga

4. Karma Yoga

5. Raja Yoga

6. Mudra Yoga

7. Bhakti Yoga

8. Laya Yoga

9. Kriya Yoga
   
   

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