A person who practices bhakti yoga, known as a bhakti yogi, thinks of God in personal terms, such as Father, Mother, Friend, or Beloved. This helps the bhakti yogi to awaken love for God. When done correctly, this eventually leads one to see and love God in all forms, rather than just in one’s chosen deity. The path of bhakti yoga teaches that it is our manner of love, and it’s strength, rather than the particular form that is loved, that determines it’s success.

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What is Best: Detached Zen or Devotional Bhakti?

Tyagi Jayadev

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…

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Kriya Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

Tyagi Jayadev

Question from ajay dange: Sir, How is Kriya Yoga related with Advaita Vedanta? What is relation between Kriya Yoga and other yogas like Raja, Gyana, and Bhakti Yoga? Can any one of them lead us to Self-realization, or we must practice them all?

Bhakti Yoga Definition

/bhākti/ - भक्ति

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.

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Raja Yoga and other yogas

Nayaswami Devarshi

Question from Tammy: I understand from Autobiography of a Yogi, that the type of Yoga that most Yogis preferred was Raja Yoga. Is this true? What is the difference between Raja Yoga Hatha Yoga, Kriya Yoga, and the energization excersizes? Do you practice Yoga, and what type of yoga do you do? I practice Hatha yoga. Should I switch to Raja yoga for…