What is the path of Bhakti Yoga?
Yoga means ‘union’ or ‘communion with your own self’ through Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga, Kriya Yoga or Jnana Yoga. There are the important yogas. I have my own fixed opinion about Bhakti Yoga. It is very difficult to become a true bhakta. You can practise any Yoga by willpower. You can get a few books and keep thinking about the reality of Brahman. Any great author can impress you about the mystic practices, then you will do them. If you read some of the books on Karma Yoga, you can practise that also, but even if you read the Bible and Ramayana a hundred times, you cannot become a bhakta. Only that person who has devotion from birth, in his original nature, should practice Bhakti Yoga or the path of devotion. It is not possible to develop bhakti through others, through books or through a Guru. It comes on its own, spontaneously. A bhakta is not as serious as a raja yogi. He is a person who has surplus emotions, and a person with surplus emotions does not know how to adjust the
