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Bhakti Yog
The path of devotion: love turned toward the divine.
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Philosophy
Bhakti means devotion, from a root meaning to share or to partake. Bhakti Yog makes love the method: the practitioner turns feeling, rather than will or intellect, toward the divine.
Its practices are familiar ones: chanting the divine name, singing in kirtan, prayer, offering and service. The Bhagavad Gita gives Bhakti a central place, and much of the devotional poetry of India grows from it.
Practices
Sources and tradition
- YOG Union App Content Map, 2 November 2026, pp. 2–3, philosophy and foundations