Yoga pathways part 3
Bhakti Yoga – the yoga of devotion. Finding inner stillness by transforming our basic nature, making love pure, transcendental and focused, providing a direction for the emotions. Bhakti Yoga is a very powerful tool for the creation and expression of love without boundaries - universal love. The faculties of the heart are cultivated by following the yogic path of Bhakti. The process sounds simple - the practices include kirtan (joyful led chanting usually in Sanskrit); mantra; cultivation of an attitude of love (bhava) and so on. But of course it's not easy as it requires a transformation of our basic personality. I find it comforting that we can transform our personal difficulties by practice. That's why it's called practice of course because we're not perfect!
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