{"id":1324,"date":"2020-10-05T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinyoga.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:09:11","slug":"bhakti-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinyoga.com\/bhakti-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhakti Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the four main yogic paths to enlightenment is Bhakti yoga. The word “bhakti” means devotion or love. It is well known as the yoga of love. It comes from the Sanskrit word ‘bhakti’ which is derived from bhaj which means ”divide or participate”. It also means faith, love, and devotion which can be correlated to something religious and it focuses on the spiritual aspect of life. The philosophy behind this practice is to unite the individual who practices yoga to the Divine. It is speculated by experts that this path originated around the second or third BCE wherein Bhagavad Gita was written, it is a love song to God that expresses an idea of the possibility of an individual to experience spiritual realization by having a deep connection with his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhakti yoga is one of the easiest to perform among the different paths and it is the path that can be easily mastered by an individual. This is the path that offers the most direct process that helps an individual in the union of the mind, body, and spirit. The requirement when practicing Bhakti yoga is for the individual to have a loving heart and devotion. It is the yogic path that complements other paths as well; by practicing it an individual is able to understand other paths more easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhakti yoga is surrounded by spiritual<\/a> practices and uses Hindu deities. Western practitioners may not use the Hindu deities as it is not required to practice this path, an individual can find his personal object of devotion and it will help in achieving the ultimate goal of the path which is to unite with the Divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhakti yoga is also known as Bhakti marga which means a spiritual path amidst Hinduism with the ultimate purpose of loving a personal god. Bhakti yoga has nine main practices that can be practiced by an individual separately or together as one. Each limb creates different feelings that can affect the individual accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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