Category:Bhakti Is...
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda clarifies the true nature of bhakti as a dynamic, scientific process rather than mere sentiment or passive meditation. He defines it as the purified activity of the senses engaged in the service of the master of the senses, Krsna. This analysis reveals that bhakti is the constitutional position of the soul, superior to simple liberation, and free from all material designations.
- Active Engagement: Bhakti is inherently active, not passive; it is the utilization of the senses in their healthy, purified state for the satisfaction of the Lord.
- Scientific Process: Far from being emotional sentimentality, bhakti is a transcendental science and a clinical method for cleansing the heart.
- Superior to Liberation: While many spiritualists seek mukti, bhakti is situated above liberation, as one must be liberated to truly engage the senses in the Lord's service.
- Freedom from Designations: The practice requires being sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam, or free from bodily labels like country, family, or society, focusing solely on Bhagavan.
- The Supreme Occupation: It is the supermost occupation for human beings, transcending ordinary religious, economic, or sense-gratificatory activities.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Bhakti Is Transcendental Science and Activity.
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This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Bhakti Is..."
The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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- Bhakti is a cleansing method, vidhi-bhakti. But by engaging oneself in this Deity worship, he also becomes cleansed. Tat-paratve... Sarvopadhi... As he becomes enlightened or advanced in understanding that he is eternal servant of Krsna
- Bhakti is a process. Bhakti is not knowledge. That knowledge you acquire by your sense perception, and bhakti is the pure activities of the senses
- Bhakti is activity. Bhakti is not passive
- Bhakti is activity. Just like personally, up to seventy years, I was practically doing nothing. But at the age of seventy years, by the grace of God, Krsna, there was inspiration; I went to Western country - not to sit down there silently
- Bhakti is called sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam (CC Madhya 19.170), indicating that a devotee is freed from all material designations, and anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11), situated in a transcendental position, free from all material desires
- Bhakti is in a far higher position than mukti because a person's endeavor to get liberation from the material encagement is automatically served in devotional service
- Bhakti is main thing, not your palatable dish. Visnu is quite competent to prepare thousand times better palatable dishes than you can offer. But the real thing is bhakti
- Bhakti is not sentiment. Bhakti is the transcendental science
- Bhakti is nothing artificial. It is the activity of healthy stage. Just like a man, when he is diseased, his activities are differing from the man who is cured and healthy
- Bhakti is only for Bhagavan. Not that "My bhakti for this or that, for this demigod, for that demigod, for my family, for my country, for my society, for my wife, for my cat, for my dog." This is not bhakti. They are imitation only. That is lust
- Bhakti is so powerful that it is also said to be moksa-laghutakrt; in other words, it minimizes the importance of liberation
- Bhakti is some active service
- Bhakti is the pure activities of the senses
- Bhakti is the stage after liberation. Unless one is liberated one cannot engage the senses in the service of the Lord
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- The process is to fix the mind on Hrsikesa, or Krsna, as Maharaja Ambarisa did (sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh (SB 9.4.18)). Bhakti is the basic principle of all processes
- The yogis also at times take to chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, but their purpose is different from that of the bhaktas. In all processes - karma, jnana or yoga - bhakti is required. That is the purport of this verse - SB 4.31.12
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