Bhakti Yoga

Spiritual Realisation, the Aim of BhaktuYoga ... 13 The Need of a Guru ... ... ... ... 15 Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher ... 18 Incarnate .Teachers and Incarnation... ... ... 24 The Mantra ! Om : Word and Wisdom ... ... 28 Worship of Substitutes and Images... ... ... 31 The Chosen Ideal ... ... ... ... ... 34 The Method and the Means ... •• 36 Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion. The Preparatory Renunciation ... ... ... 43 The Bhakta's Renunciation Results from Love ... 46 The Naturalness of Bhakti- Yoga and Its Central Secret. 50 The Forms of Love-manifestation ... ... ... 52 Universal Love and How It leads to Self-surrender ... 54 The Higher Knowledge and the Higher Love are one to the True Lover ... ... ... ... 59 The Triangle of Love ... ... ... ... 60 The God of Love is His own Proof... ... ... 65 Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love... 67 BHAKTI-YOGA ?: gwwrw jffFTri ^ 3TW srirat ffTcq^^ jfr'4t II ^ aiRjfgfltn^ 25^ 5r^oR5 ht^ II *' He is the Soul of the Universe ; He is immortal ; His is the Rulership ; He is the All-Knowing, the All-Pervading, the Protector of the Universe, the Eternal Ruler. None else is there efficient to govern the World eternally. He who at the beginning of creation projected Brahmh {i.e., the universal consciousness), and Who delivered the Vedas unto him — seeking liberation I go for refuge unto that Effulgent One Whose light turns the understanding towards the A'tnmn," — S'^vetds'vatara-Upanishad, VI. 17— iH.…