Bhakti Yoga, the worship of God through devotion

The true bhakta sees good in everything and everyone.

He knows, that there is only one God expressing as the many.

The seers say, from joy, which is another word for love, are born all creatures, by joy they are sustained, toward joy the progress and into joy they enter.

The immortal Being manifests himself in joy-form.

It is the joy being without form that must create and translate itself into form.

Man in his role as a creator is ever creating form. Form comes out of his abandoning joy.

This Joy who others name love, must by its very nature have duality for its realization.

The lover seeks his own other self in the beloved. It is in joy that it creates this separation, in order to realize through obstacles the union.

The human soul is on its journey to love. It progresses through discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual plane, to the joy of living in God.

So love is the perfection of consciousness, we do not love, because we do not comprehend and we do not comprehend, because we do not love.

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth, it is Joy hat is at the root of all creation. It is the light of pure consciousness that emanates from the Infinite.

The Christian Teachings tell us to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul and with all thy strength and to love thy neighbor as thyself.

To love God with all our heart is know in Yoga as bhakti yoga – union with God through unconditional love and devotion. The bhakta realizes that whatever is in his heart, is where his concentration is.

To love God with all the mind means with focused concentration, being one-pointed; Praying without ceasing.

To love God with all our soul means to enter a state of super-consciousness, a state of direct perception of the soul and its oneness with God. In that state, no thought crosses the mind, yet there is a conscious, an all-knowingness. It is a state of exceeding joy.

To love God with all the soul requires complete stillness of the mind. This cannot be achieved while praying aloud, singing or chanting.

To love God with all our strength is to interiorize our life force through the practice of Asana, Pranayama and Pratyahara as emphasized in rajas yoga.

To love our neighbor, our neighbor is the manifestation of His greater Self or God. The soul is a reflection of Spirit, a reflection that is in every being and in the vibratory life of all animate and inanimate objects.