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Bhakti means devotion and loving attachment both to the Divine. Strictly, the word means "sharing" (bhaj verbal root "to participate - share"), but is usually translated as "devotion" or "love."
From the beginning, this term was intimately connected with the theistic traditions of Hinduism. However, originally, the Bhakti ideal prevailed among the worshipers of Vishnu, with a strong tendency towards philosophy theist.
This orientation is well reflected in the Bhagavad Gita, where Krishna declares:
"From one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, from that I would not walk away and he did not away from me " (6.30)
The devotional yogi path literally participates in the Divine through surrender, devotion, service and worship to eventually be drawn into the mystical union with the Divine. Shandilya, the author of Bhakti Sutra (1.2), defines bhakti as "the supreme attachment to the Lord." It is the only type of attachment that does not reinforce the ego personality and destiny.
Attachment is a combination of paying attention to something and research it with intense emotional energy. When we confess our attachment to certain people, we mean that we are glad his company or even find pleasure just to think about them, so that when we are aware of their absence or loss we grieve. The loss of loved persons or animals and even inanimate ones, seems to diminish our own being.
In Bhakti Yoga, the practitioner is always a devotee, a lover and Beloved is the Divine.
A practitioner of bhakti yoga is called Bhakti (lit.: an accomplice or devotee). Bhakti
Temperament seeks, above all a direct, intense and personal relationship with the Divine or simply life, the Bhakti does not necessarily need the presence of God, as Bhakti Yoga practitioners believe that a Supreme Being transcends their lives and are inclined to connect or even completely dissolved in such a being, through acts of devotion.
In Bhakti Yoga the emotional power of human beings is purified and channeled toward the Divine.
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