Bhakti yoga: The path of love

Bhakti yoga: The path of love

by Prabhuji David Ben Yosef Har-Zion
Bhakti yoga: The path of love

Bhakti yoga: The path of love

by Prabhuji David Ben Yosef Har-Zion

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Overview

Bhakti yoga is the path of devotion that can lead every sincere seeker to self-realization. This book explains the devotional evolution that starts from an experience of a personal God and culminates in the unity of the lover and the loved. With astounding insight, Prabhuji describes a process that divinizes the earthly, spiritualizes the material, and transforms worldly attachments into transcendental love.

This yogic path reveals that far from being an interaction with another person, love is the perfume that emanates from our own presence, here and now. When we experience this love, we discover that it is not an emotion or a feeling but what is real within us. Bhakti is the purest and most elevated love arising from the depths of consciousness and the silence of meditation.

Prabhuji is a writer and a mystic who has chosen to retire from society and lead a solitary life. He spends his days completely secluded from the public, writing in silence and absorbed in contemplation. Prabhuji does not offer any sat-sangs, courses, or lectures, nor does he accept disciples or followers. He shares his teachings only through books and online videos. We ask everybody to respect his privacy. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780981526492
Publisher: Prabhuji Mission
Publication date: 07/31/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 194
File size: 47 MB
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About the Author

Prabhuji was born in Santiago, the capital of Chile, on March 21, 1958. He is an artist and an avadhūta mystic who suggests evaluating the problems of modern man with oldest wisdom known to humanity. A mystical experience that occurred at the age of eight transformed him into a passionate seeker of Truth that delved into a great diversity of religions. During his years of searching, he traveled to South America, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India to visit sages, swamis, roshis, rabbis, priests, and masters of various spiritual paths. Between 1995 and 2010, he accepted a few monastic disciples who expressly requested to be initiated by him. In 2010, he took the irrevocable decision to stop accepting monastic disciples, followers, devotees, or even visitors. Since then, his main activities have been writing, painting, composing music, distributing food to people in need, and guiding a small group of disciples who asked to stay with Prabhuji, whom they consider to be their spiritual guide. For Prabhuji, meditation is not a method, a technique, or a practice, but a way of life. His message speaks of the peace, love, truth, meditation, and enlightenment that lie at the core of all religions. His teachings point to the very essence of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Sikism, Tantra, Hasidism, Vedanta, Tao, Zen, Shamanism, and Yoga.

Table of Contents

Maṅgalācaraṅa - Dedication 7 Acknowledgements 12 Preface 15 Introduction 19 Love 25 Levels of love 27 Expansion of love 32 Sublimation of love 34 God 37 The souls 43 The cosmic manifestation 46 The worship of Īśvara 50 The nine limbs of bhakti yoga 55 Śravaṇa, "listening" 58 Kīrtana, "glorification" 61 Smaraṇa, "remembrance" 66 Pāda-sevana, "service to the feet" 69 Arcana, "worship" 80 Vandana, "reverence, prayer" 92 Dāsya, "being the servant of God" 97 Sakhya, "friendliness" 101 Ātma-nivedana, "surrendering to God" 104 Devotional Joy 109 The ocean of nectarean devotion 110 Bharata Muni's theory of rasa 112 Abhinavagupta's theory of rasa 117 King Bhoja's theory of rasa 119 Rūpa Gosvāmī's theory of bhakti-rasa 122 Art and religion 133 The development of devotees in saguṇa-bhakti 135 Kaniṣṭhādhikārīs, "novice devotees" 136 Madhyamādhikārīs, "intermediate devotees" 137 Uttamādhikārīs, "the most elevated devotees" 139 The evolution of saguṇa-bhakti 145 Sadhana bhakti, "bhakti in practice" 145 Bhāva-bhakti, "bhakti in ecstasy" 148 Prema-bhakti, "bhakti in pure love for God" 150 Parā-bhakti, "transcendental devotion" 155 Love is unity 162 Religion 167 The spiritual search 169 The religion of bhakti yoga 172 The person of religion 175 Glossary of Sanskrit terms 177 Sanskrit pronunciation guide 184 About the author 189 About the mission 193
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