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Bhakti Yoga

The yoga of devotion — liberation through loving surrender to the divine.

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Bhakti yoga claims the most accessible entry point to the divine: love. Where Jnana Yoga requires fierce discriminative intellect and Raja Yoga requires years of disciplined meditation, bhakti asks only that the heart be pointed.

Its methods are devotional: Kirtan (call-and-response singing), Japa (repetition of divine names), image-based worship, pilgrimage, the company of the awakened (Satsang), and above all Surrender.

Mirabai, Kabir, chaitanya, Ramakrishna — each a master of this path. In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna declares bhakti the most accessible of the yogas. It remains the most widely practiced in South Asia.

See the broader tradition at Bhakti.

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