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	BHAKTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In both these texts, bhakti is presented as a form of yoga, in which one contemplates god as part of a controlled and disciplined practice--a far cry from the abandonment and passionate involvement characterizing it in later times.
		Bhakti devotees were men and women from all strata of society, from the highest to the lowest, for here was an opportunity for religious life based solely on the depth and sincerity of one's devotion, rather than on one's birth.
		Bhakti egalitarianism was religious equality, and pointed to way of living and being attempting to transcend rather than reform human society.
	martin.carthage.edu /~lochtefe/bhakti.html (594 words)

	Bhakti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within Vaishnavism bhakti is only used in conjunction with Vishnu or one of his associated incarnations, it is likewise used towards Shiva by followers of Shaivism.
		Bhakti as a process of yoga is described in detail famously within the Bhagavad Gita, wherein it is given as the ultimate form of religious expression (18.55), for which all other dharmas should be abandoned (18.66).
		The scripture known as the Narad Bhakti Sutra, believed to be spoken by the sage Narada distinguishes eleven forms of bhakti based on the different relationship to God that the devotee can assume.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhakti (1049 words)

	Bhakti Yoga
		Bhakti is the slender thread of Prem or love that binds the heart of a devotee with the lotus feet of the Lord.
		Bhakti is a sacred, higher emotion with sublime sentiments that unites the devotees with the Lord.
		Bhakti is sweet in the beginning, sweet in the middle and sweet in the end.
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /teachings/bhaktiyoga.htm (2875 words)

	The Bhakti Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bhakti has three relationships, that of father and son, that of affection and that of love between a man and a woman, as in the case of Radha and Krishna.
		Bhakti is a science which can transform the very roots of man. Bhakti transforms his thinking pattern and his basic tendencies.
		Bhakti was already present in him, but on hearing the strong words of his wife the waves of emotion within him which were misdirected towards a woman flowed towards God.
	www.hinduweb.org /home/seva/sivanandmath/BhaktiAge1.htm (7609 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Bhakti yoga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bhakti yoga is the Hindu term for the spiritual practice of fostering of loving devotion to God, called bhakti.
		Bhakti is the Hindu term that signifies a blissful, selfless and overwhelming love of God as the beloved Father, Mother, Child, or whatever relationship or aspect of God that finds appeal in the devotee's heart.
		However, the bhakti movements are monotheistic movements that has been primarily devoted to worship of Shiva or Vishnu or the Lord's Shakti.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Bhakti_yoga (751 words)

	Bhakti Yoga Information on Healthline
		Bhakti yoga is thought by some to be the oldest form of yoga, with its roots in the Vedas, or ancient scriptures of India.
		Sravana bhakti cannot be practiced in isolation, however; the devotee must hear the stories from a wise teacher, and seek the companionship of holy people.
		This form of bhakti yoga is a cultivation of friendship-love toward God—to love God as a member of one's family or dearest friend, and delight in companionship with God.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/bhakti-yoga (855 words)

	Narad Bhakti - URDAY.com
		Such love (Bhakti) is devoid of any characteristic, it is free of any desire, it increases with time, it is subtler than the subtlest and it is of the nature of the experience.
		Para Bhakti is free from all the gunas.
		Bhakti is of the nature of peace and of the form of absolute bliss.
	www.urday.com /devotion.html (1197 words)

	Bhakti Yoga: the Yoga of Devotion
		Bhakti Yoga is one of the four main yogic paths to enlightenment.
		Bhakti Yoga is considered the easiest yogic path to master and the most direct method to experience the unity of mind, body and spirit.
		The ultimate goal in the practice of Bhakti yoga is to reach the state of rasa (essence), a feeling of pure bliss achieved in the devotional surrender to the Divine.
	www.yogabasics.com /articles/bhakti.html (612 words)

	The Bhakti Movement and the Path of Devotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bhakti movement began in South India around the 5th century CE, and in the next thousand years spread northward throughout the subcontinent, taking on individual and distinctive forms as it moved from one area to another.
		Bhakti was a religious movement stressing passionate love of God, and the equality it stressed was religious equality before God, rather than a leveling of social distinctions.
		Accessibility--The bhakti poetry was generally written not in Sanskrit (the priestly, elitist language) but in the vernacular language of the region, which everyone could understand.
	www2.carthage.edu /~lochtefe/IHbhakti.html (456 words)

	The path of Bhakti Yoga : pure spiritual devotion is Bhakti Yoga
		Bhakti Yoga is pure spiritual devotion, of love for God which is Love.
		In Bhakti yoga, everything is but a manifestation of the divine and all else is meaningless, including the Ego.
		Bhakti Yoga is the most direct method, the shortest way to experience the divine.
	www.sanatansociety.org /yoga_and_meditation/bhakti_yoga.htm (827 words)

	Bhakti Yoga
		Bhakti is both the ideal of spiritual life and the means to its attainment.
		One important discipline of Bhakti Yoga is that a devotee of God must not hate or criticise the objects of worship of other sects; he must not even hear criticism of them.
		The goal of Bhakti Yoga is to blend both breadth and intensity of love, and Hinduism lays down the doctrine of the Chosen Ideal to accomplish this purpose.
	www.hinduism.co.za /bhakti1.htm (4990 words)

	Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:The Bhakti Movement
		Bhakti movement in Medieval India is responsible for the many rites and rituals associated with the worship of God by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs of Indian subcontinent.
		In North India, Bhakti movement is nonethless not differentiable by a Sufi movement of Shia Muslims of Chisti fame.
		The path of bhakti was not directly accessible to the lower castes; for them the path of prapatti (unquestioned self-surrender) was prescribed.
	allaboutsikhs.com /events/bhakti.htm (803 words)

	Bhakti
		The bhakti movement was long opposed by the brahminis because it disregarded Vedic rituals, ignored caste differences (many of the bhakti saints and leaders were of the lower castes), and stressed devotion over knowledge.
		Bhakti essentially became the religion of the masses of India, for it enables the individual to approach the Divine directly and to become a part of his all-encompassing love.
		One of the major themes of bhakti is that of avatar, God manifesting himself on earth in some form (even animal as well as human) in order to benefit humankind in time of troubles; Krishna is the supreme example of an avatar, but avatars are endless and beyond count.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/b/bhakti.html (638 words)

	AllRefer.com - bhakti, Hindu Religion (Hinduism) - Encyclopedia
		Bhakti cults seem to have existed from the earliest times, but they gained strength in the first millennium
		The bhakti tradition has tended to stress authentic inner feelings as opposed to institutional forms of religion and to disregard caste distinctions.
		Great devotees and saints such as the Alvars of S India (a Vaishnavite group of wandering singers), Mirabai, Tukaram, Tulsidasa, Kabir, and Chaitanya have continuously inspired the cults, founded their own sects, and produced a great literature of songs and poems in their vernaculars.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/bhakti.html (283 words)

	Erowid Yoga Vault : Bhakti Yoga
		The Bhakti yogi is motivated chiefly by the power of love and sees the spirit as the embodiment of love.
		Bhakti Yoga is perhaps best known through the presence of the Krishna Consciousness Movement.
		Better known as the "Hare Krishnas", this movement practices a form of Bhakti Yoga and are well known for their chanting of the hare krishna mantra.
	www.erowid.org /spirit/yoga/yoga_bhakti.shtml (123 words)

	Bhakti Course - Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, Los Angeles
		Bhakti or devotion is the natural affinity between the devotee and the Lord.
		Bhakti requires an open heart only, and no experience or knowledge of Yoga is needed to participate in this course.
		Bhakti Yoga Course is a 5 session two-hour course, run on Saturdays at 12:30pm.
	www.sivananda.org /la/BhaktiCourse.htm (112 words)

	Bhakti-Surrender
		Narada gives these as the signs of Bhakti (devotion): When all thoughts, all words, and all deeds are given up to the Lord, and when the least forgetfulness of God makes one intensely miserable, then love has begun.
		Bhakti is Jnana Mata (devotion is the mother of knowledge).
		The experience of not forgetting consciousness, alone, is the state of devotion (Bhakti), which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the real knowledge of Self, which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself, surges up as the nature of love.
	www.hinduism.co.za /bhakti-.htm (5511 words)

	Sadhana of the jiva: Pure Bhakti
		Sadhana bhakti is called vaidhi bhakti when the soul practices devotion to Krsna according to the regulation of scriptures, lacking natural attraction to Krsna.
		Their bhakti is not real bhakti but a semblance of bhakti (bhakty abhasa): their chanting of Hare Krsna is called shadow namabhasa (chaya namabhasa).
		Among the angas of bhakti mentioned in vaidhi bhakti such as kirtana, those which are favorable for his service are accepted by the practitioner of raganuga.
	www.vtweb.com /gosai/chaitanya/saranagati/html/siksa/siksa-10.html (4192 words)

	Spiritual Devotion or Bhakti Yoga
		The devotion to divine energies is mostly expressed in ritual and may lead to a state of mind in which life itself becomes one long ritual in praise of God.
		The mood that is predominant in Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of spiritual devotion) strongly relates to Shringara (Love), but also includes other Rasas such as Peace and Wonder.
		Bhakti Yoga is a very difficult path for the modern mind, because it requires the intellect to stop doubting God and Love without expectation.
	www.rasas.info /spiritual_devotion_bhakti_yoga.htm (296 words)

	Bhakti Yoga - Definition of Bhakti
		The one great advantage of bhakti is that it is the easiest and the most natural way to reach the great divine end in view; its great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it oftentimes degenerates into hideous fanaticism.
		When Bhakti has become ripe and has passed into that form which is called supreme (Para), no more is there any fear of these hideous manifestations of fanaticism; that soul which is overpowered by this higher form of bhakti is too near the God of Love to become an instrument for the diffusion of hatred.
		In fact, Bhakti, when used as an instrument, really means a lower form of worship, and the higher form becomes inseparable from the lower form of realization at a later stage.
	www.hinduism.fsnet.co.uk /namoma/sayings_swamiji/III_BY_p31_Definition_of_Bhakti.htm (1249 words)

	bhakti - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Bhakti cults seem to have existed from the earliest times, but they gained strength in the first millennium AD The first full statement of liberation and spiritual fulfillment through devotion to a personal god is found in the Bhagavad-Gita.
		Devotion to Shiva and Vishnu and to the latter's avatara (incarnations), Rama and Krishna, continues to be practiced throughout India.
		Bhakti building network empire.(Indonesian investment company PT Bhakti Investama)(Brief Article)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bhakti.html (336 words)

	Bhakti Yoga
		Bhakti Yoga is the path of channelling the emotions and feelings to realise the transcendental and divine nature inherent in every human being.
		The stages of Bhakti Yoga can be classified as follows: (1) meditation, to realise and channel emotional energy, (2) mantras and kirtans, to open the heart, (3) identification with the source of inspiration and life, God, (4) experiencing transcendental human qualities in daily life.
		The validity and depth of Bhakti Yoga can only be understood by realising the experiences of union that masters have had over the course of their lives.
	www.yogavision.net /yv/satyoga/bhaktiyoga.htm (203 words)

	UCI Bhakti Yoga Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The word bhakti can be traced to the verbal root bhaj, which means "to worship".
		The goal of Bhakti Yoga Club is to understand bhakti-yoga in great detail by systematically studying the Vedic literatures and to eventually apply the principles to our lives.
		Bhakti Yoga Club provides us with a lot of opportunities for lecture sessions, scientific presentations and mutual discussions.
	spirit.dos.uci.edu /byc (217 words)

	Bhakti Yoga is the spiritual practice of devotion. Sacred Word Trust
		Bhakti is also an attitude or approach to the divinity; or, an attitude and approach to religion and spirituality.
		Thus: "He tends toward bhakti." One who tends toward bhakti, with an emotional and devotional attitude toward the divinity, can be called a "bhakta." Bhakti is not a rational or cool approach to the Ultimate, but an emotive love approach.
		The attitude of bhakti is a significant factor in initiation (shaktipat), and in the fruitfulness of meditation techniques (dharana).
	bhakti-yoga.info (235 words)

	Yoga, bhakti yoga, love of God
		Bhakti Yoga is the system in which love and devotion are emphasized.
		There are Bhakti Yoga traditions that do not teach asana, pranayama, mudra or controlled meditation - main practices of traditional yoga.
		Jesus stated the ideal of Bhakti Yoga when he taught, "As you have loved me, love one another." When true love reigns, there can be no barriers; then harmony and fulfillment rule.
	www.holistic-online.com /Yoga/yoga_types_bhakti_yoga.htm (399 words)

	Bhakti \| YogaYak.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bhakti Yoga is regarded as the most direct method to merge in cosmic consciousness.
		Bhakti yoga is based on the doctrine "Love is God and God is Love".
		Bhakti Yoga lets one see the absolute manifested in all experience.
	www.yogayak.com /styles/bhakti (326 words)

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		Bhakti yoga, or the process of reaching Him by being in direct devotional service to the Lord is easier and natural for us humans.
		The individual soul is embodied since time immemorial, and it is very difficult for a common man to visualize that he is not the body and that the Lord does not have any physical attributes either.
		Bhakti Yoga, according to the Bhagwad Gita, is the shortest path to spiritual realization.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/Hinduism/bhagwad.html (2040 words)

	Bhakti Yoga
		Bhakti is the greatest power on this earth.
		Bhakti is of two kinds, viz., Apara Bhakti (lower type of devotion) and Para Bhakti (highest Bhakti or Supreme Love).
		Bhakti grows gradually just as you grow a flower or a tree in a garden.
	www.yoga-age.com /amrita/bhakti.html (602 words)

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