The yoga of devotion.
Bhakti Yoga is the yoga of devotion, the yoga of love in action, and, I would say, the yoga of gratitude. Bhakti is an opening of the heart, an offering of the heart to the divine, who has many names, but who, on the path of Bhakti, we call Krsna or Govinda.
Bhakti is meditation saturated with love. When we love someone, we seek to please that person. Bhakti is not static but rather the evolving love of an awakened heart.
Bhakti is a harmonizing of the vibrations of our hearts with the divine vibration of our source, like the sympathetic strings of a sitar or harp vibrating in connectivity to the dominant strings as they're being played.
We each seem to carry a longing in our hearts, a longing to find our lost identity, a longing to find our source, our true north.
I think every spiritual tradition of the world guides us to seek the light, to seek what's ultimate, and to seek our source in love. Ultimately, what touches our hearts most intimately is what's personal. What's real is the person. In Bhakti, we seek that beautiful, playful, and delightful Supreme Person. And that Supreme Person is both feminine as Sri Radha and masculine as Sri Krsna. According to our Bhakti tradition, the divine dance of Radha and Krsna is the center of all existence, and They are inviting us, and all living beings, to join them in their dance of love.
Please join us as we aspire to open our hearts, enter the circle of that divine dance, and traverse this pilgrim's path of Bhakti!
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— Divya Alter
Ayurvedic cookbook author and co-founder of Divya’s Kitchen