Guest guest Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Teachings of Swami Vivekananda In Bhakti-Yoga, the first essential is to want God honestly and intensely. We want everything but God, because our ordinary desires are fulfilled by the external world. So long as our needs are confined within the limits of the physical universe, we do not feel any need for God; it is only when we have had hard blows in our lives and are disappointed with everything here that we feel the need for something Higher; then we seek God. (VII. 83) Bhakti-Yoga does not say "give up"; it only says, "Love; Love the Highest", and everything low naturally falls off from him, the object of whose Love is this Highest. (III. 74) Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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