Bhakti is devotional acts of pure unconditional love practiced as a spiritual path. All spiritual journeys contain elements of Bhakti.
The essence of Bhakti theory is applicable across cultural and religious distinctions because teachings of Bhakti, or devotion, are an elegant, exceptional elucidation on the nature of love and the heart and the true Self.
Bhakti has many names
- Path of Unconditional Love
- Path of the Heart
- Yoga of the Heart
- Yoga of Love
- Unadulterated Heart
- Authentic Love
- Devotional Service
- Loving Service
- Undivided Love
- Spiritual Love
- Selfless Acts of Service
and posits that fundamental wholeness comes from unconditionally loving ourselves, others, and the Divine. Bhakti is rooted in the ancient Vedas such as the Isha-Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita, but I like to use the word devotion, which is part of human’s universal language. Just as, the devotion of a mother for her child is understood as a mirror of the true, spiritual love that we all so earnestly need.
“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.”
~ Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 1670
To hearts who have their reasons,
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