Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within. By controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy by one, or more, or all of these and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.- Swami Vivekananda (from commentary on Yoga-Sutras II:25)
To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God.(Notes taken down in Madras 1892-1893)
Bhakti is a higher thing higher than even desiring heaven. The idea of heaven is of a place of intensified enjoyment. How can that be God?
(Notes from a lecture On Bhakti Yoga)
Bhakti-Yoga is the path of systematised devotion for the attainment of union with the Absolute. It is the easiest and surest path to religion or realisation.
When love to God is revealed and is all, this world appears like a drop.-Swami Vivekananda.
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