Top 67 Quotes About Bhakti
#1. The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.
Jaggi Vasudev
#4. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship. (Mukherjee
Madhav Godbole
#5. The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#6. Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
Ramakrishna
#7. For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#8. Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.
Radhanath Swami
#9. We can never have Knowledge (Gnan) without worship (bhakti). Such knowledge would be considered shushka-gnan [unproductive knowledge]. It cannot be considered True Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#10. He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.
Sarada Devi
#11. One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words ... 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.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.
Krishna Das
#14. I'm a Bhakti, meaning I practice devotional yoga and the heart and love, so I say to people, start with your ego and go down to your heart.
Ram Dass
#15. Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.
Vinoba Bhave
#16. The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
Radhanath Swami
#17. Give and take is business not bhakti
Radhe Maa
#18. The intellectual approach to Ganesha is called gyan yoga. The emotional approach to Ganesha is called bhakti yoga. And a mechanical, ritualistic, approach to Ganesha is called karma yoga. Different
Devdutt Pattanaik
#19. People take worship (bhakti) into the relative plane. They consider singing religious songs as worship. Worship [bhakti] can never be without knowledge (gnan). Worship will make one become the one who he worships.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
Radhanath Swami
#22. Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#26. Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet.
Radhanath Swami
#27. What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.
Radhe Maa
#28. In all spiritualities there is a contrast between the affective or13 devotional (bhakti) and the intellectual, anoetic type of experience (raja yoga).
Thomas Merton
#29. Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)
Swami Vivekananda
#30. I teach Zen, tantric mysticism, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, Tibetan mysticism, occultism and psychic development. I also teach poetry and literature, film and many other different things.
Frederick Lenz
#31. As you pass through bhakti yoga, as you pass through love, you're elated. You're fulfilled and you're joyous.
Frederick Lenz
#32. The path that is followed by most persons in the beginning of their spitirual search is the path of love, bhakti yoga.
Frederick Lenz
#33. When we become connected to the supreme spirit then we automatically becomes situated in our spiritual identity.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#34. If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#35. Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?"
Frederick Lenz
#37. It is dangerous for a spiritual master to accept almost any aspirant. Although it is an aspect of mercy, it is dangerous. The danger also depends on the spiritual potency of the particular guru. Without sufficient potency, a few offensive or faithless disciples can lead to the guru's fall.
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
#38. Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#39. When you find that you're unhappy, know that it's because you're not loving properly..
Frederick Lenz
#40. In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
Frederick Lenz
#41. To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#42. As long as our consciousness is materialistic, there is no room for joy. However on the spiritual platform three things automatically happen: eternity, knowledge and bliss.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#43. Spiritual life is not dry, it is also exceuted happily, 'susukham'. The result of that is not just happiness, but bliss, spiritual joy.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#44. When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#45. Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#46. There is nothing to become. The Truth shines here and now. Awareness IS. One does not become it. The Sun shines. One can simply enjoy it or be busy otherwise. That's it. The Sun shines irrespectively.
Awareness. Fire. The Song.
IT IS.
Stop fighting. Stop.
T.R. Cordon
#47. Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#48. Enjoy being with yourself, hanging out with yourself, doing things by yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
#50. We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#51. Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.
Frederick Lenz
#52. Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One.
Tulsidas
#53. When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#54. It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.
Frederick Lenz
#55. A living entity becomes aware of his Spiritual Identity and becomes aware of the Supreme Personality of Godhead only when he comes accross a Sprititual Master.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#56. You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#58. When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#59. A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.
Swami Vivekananda
#61. We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#62. What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)
Prem Prakash
#64. By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#65. The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.
Bhakti Charu Swami
