Bhakti yoga is union with God through devotion. A bhakti yogi thinks of God in personal terms. This helps the bhakti yogi to awaken love for God.

What is Best: Detached Zen or Devotional Bhakti?
Question from roby: Help please! The teaching of Zen and other philosophies suggest being a witness, unattached, not thinking anything. But Guru Nanak says everything is fruitless without name of God. What to do, being a witness or silently repeat the name of God? How to combine these practices? Many say, be one with name of God, but many others say that the…