- In Karma Yoga the active aspect of mind is involved; in Upasana Yoga one-pointed concentration of mind; in Raja Yoga, the mystical aspect; in Gyan Yoga, the intellectual aspect and in Bhakti Yoga, the emotional aspect.
- Bhakti Yoga connects Karma, Upasana and Gyan Yoga by bringing feelings, love and life to Karma, Upasana and Gyan. On the path of will (Karma & Upasana), consciousness changes content, on the path of knowing (Gyan), content changes consciousness; on the path of transcendence (Raja), Neither consciousness changes the content, nor the content changes consciousness; on the path of feeling (Bhakti), both content and consciousness interact, both affect each other. The change is mutual.
- Bhakti Yoga means love is a goal and path is feeling, without modification of mind. Consciousness changes the content and the content changes consciousness. The change is mutual, both interact, both affect each other. Bhakti Yoga is a journey from lust to compassion, unconscious-self to merge into Self-Consciousness.
- Another dimension of Bhakti Yoga is the journey from addressed love till unaddressed love. Form to formless. It starts from either Guru or God. Characteristics of form do not belong to formless. But the characteristics of formless belong to form. Because the base of the Universe is the energy of God, Love which is unaddressed and present in every manifestation.
- Love is freedom, but not total. If love becomes devotion, then it becomes total freedom. It means surrendering yourself completely. Devotion, the path of devotion is the path of surrender is called Bhakti Yoga, the path of love and devotion.
- One has to become intensely aware or intensely loving. These are the only two keys which can bring man out of the state he is in: either intense awareness – that is the path of meditation or intense, total love, that is the path of devotion.
- Devotion is only a love affair, purified to its ultimate state. Then whomsoever you love becomes a door, a bridge to the universal organic unity, the experience of your small identity dissolving in the ocean just like a dewdrop slipping from a lotus leaf.
- Devotion is a blind thing. In devotion the other becomes more important than you. It is a trust. The intellectual cannot trust anybody; he can only criticise. He cannot trust. He can doubt, but he cannot trust And if sometimes some intellectual comes to trust, it is never authentic. First he tries to convince himself about his trust; it is never authentic. He finds proofs, arguments, and when he is satisfied that the arguments help, the proofs help, then he trusts. But he has missed the point, because trust is not argumentative and trust is not based on proof. If proofs are there, then there is no need for trust.
- Belief is rooted in desire and every belief carries its own counterpart, doubt, as a shadow. Trust is absence of desire, belief, doubt. It is the purity of the heart, innocence of the heart. In that innocent heart there is a meeting and merging with the universe.
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