The Path of Devotion (Bhakti)
Not analysis but love — the heart's road to a God who answers it.
Bhakti as a path is the way of loving devotion: liberation reached not by intellectual analysis but by wholehearted love of, and surrender to, a personal God. For the theistic Vedāntas it is the highest road, because the goal itself is loving communion with the Lord. (Bhakti is also treated under 'Devotion, Deity & the Divine,' where its scope as a whole orientation of the heart is taken up.)
How it traveled
- Bhagavad-gītāKuru-Pañcāla region · -150explains
Key passages(7)
But the fruit (accruing) to these men of little understanding is limited. The worshippers of the Devas go to the Devas; My devotees too come to me.
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The Blessed Lord said: In the beginning (of creation), O sinless one, the twofold path of devotion was given by Me to this world;—the path of knowledge for the meditative, the path of work for the act
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