Bhakti Yoga
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~31,600 words · 150 passages
Cite this work
- APASwami Vivekananda. (n.d.). Bhakti Yoga. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/bhakti-yoga
- MLASwami Vivekananda. "Bhakti Yoga." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/bhakti-yoga.
- ChicagoSwami Vivekananda. Bhakti Yoga. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/swami-vivekananda/bhakti-yoga.
What it is about
Bhakti Yoga: the path of devotion.
Context and history
The most accessible of the four yogas, since it asks neither learning nor physical discipline but love. Vivekananda insists that all forms of devotion lead to the same place — which at the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago was news.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Spiritual Realisation, the Aim of BhaktuYoga ... 13 The Need of a Guru ... ... ... ... 15 Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher ... 18 Incarnate .Teachers and Incarnation... ... ... 24 The Mantra ! Om : Word and Wisdom ... ... 28 Worship of Substitutes and Images... ... ... 31 The Chosen Ideal ... ... ... ... ... 34 The Method and the Means ... •• 36 Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion. The Preparatory Renunciation ... ... ... 43 The Bhakta's Renunciation Results from Love ... 46 The Naturalness of Bhakti- Yoga and Its Central Secret. 50 The Forms of Love-manifestation ... ... ... 52 Universal Love and How It leads to Self-surrender ... 54 The Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love are one to the True Lover ... ... ... ... 59 The Triangle of Love ... ... ... ... 60 The God of Love is His own Proof... ... ... 65 Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love... 67 BHAKTI-YOGA ?: gwwrw jffFTri ^ 3TW srirat ffTcq^^ jfr'4t II ^ aiRjfgfltn^ 25^ 5r^oR5 ht^ II *' He is the Soul of the Universe ; He is immortal ; His is the Rulership ; He is the All-Knowing, the All-Pervading, the Protector of the Universe, the Eternal Ruler. None else is there efficient to govern the World eternally. He who at the beginning of creation projected Brahmh {i.e., the universal consciousness), and Who delivered the Vedas unto him — seeking liberation I go for refuge unto that Effulgent One Whose light turns the understanding towards the A'tnmn," — S'^vetds'vatara-Upanishad, VI. 17— iH. Defi← Back to Swami Vivekananda