Introduction to Bhakti - Yoga

Love is the most beautiful and exciting element of our life and without which our life is dull and boring.  Every relation, which we develop is some how based on Love.  Now a days Love is not understood in its true sense, true love never expect any thing in return but today in modern era we expect too much not only from each other but from nature also, and when our expectations are not fulfilled we are gripped by frustrations, stresses and depressions.

Actually we have forgotten the definition of Love and we are presenting here Bhakti Yoga to remind you the actual meaning of Love.  This is our small effort to spread religion of Love throughout the world. 

Indian Mythology  emphasizes on Bhakti yoga and it has not only the literary significance but it is also necessary in spirituality where our beloved is God and we should love him without expectation.

In our view point it is also the need of the day that we should adopt the Bhakti Yoga i.e. True Love  in our routine daily life which will help us in checking our expectations from others.

In Bhakti yoga Bhakta is lover and beloved is God.  The divine lover walks secretly crossing all hurdles and obstacles in his way like earthly lover going to meet his beloved secretly and when the beloved and lover meets, this fills the heart of the lover with the ocean of divine love which is beloved himself and all other things are left behind. 

When a person is in love, all his or her actions are concentrated or centralized on the very spirit or desire how to please his or her beloved.  True love does not come until the lover is honest and devotes himself or herself fully to the beloved.  The feeling of honest devotion purifies his heart and mind .  Once his heart and mind are purified it leave no space for sinful thoughts and deeds and it also helps in developing the feeling that lover and beloved are one.  This purification helps him to achieve and maintain the stage of perfection.

At this stage the heart is full of love and love only, this immense degree of love takes us beyond the limitations of this small world and links us with the infinity.  After attaining this stage one forgets his desires, himself and then no sorrows troubles him any more, his expectations ceases and what ever he has kept it for his beloved and this leads him to attain the supreme stage of Bhakti (Para Bhakti).

A still higher stage of bhakti can be attained when life itself is devoted for the sake of love to God.  The life itself becomes beautiful and worth living due to this love and where we forget about ourselves and think only about the beloved.  The whole universe becomes dearer to us because it is all HIS.