Bhakti Yoga
- Definition of Bhakti
- The Philosophy of Ishvara
- Spiritual Realisation, the aim of Bhakti-Yoga
- The Need of Guru
- Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher
- Incarnate Teachers and Incarnation
- The Mantra: Om: Word and Wisdom
- Worship of Substitutes and Images
- The Chosen Ideal
- The Method and the Means
Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion
- The Preparatory Renunciation
- The Bhakta’s Renunciation Results from Love
- The Naturalness of Bhakti-Yoga and its Central Secret
- The Forms of Love — Manifestation
- Universal Love and How it Leads to Self Surrender
- The Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love are One to the True Lover
- The Triangle of Love
- The God of Love is His Own Proof
- Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love
- Conclusion
Love in its varied aspects is the motive force behind all the actions of living beings. But love takes its highest form when directed towards the God. Among the different paths leading man towards the attainment of the Supreme Truth is the one of love, devotion, and complete surrender. In this book Swami Vivekananda expounds how this path of Bhakti leads man to God. Being an exposition by one of the pioneers in the religious and spiritual realm of the modern times, the value of this work need not be emphasized. Lucid, simple, and to the point, the words of the Swami touch the hearts of the readers and puts them on to the divine path of love supreme.
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