David Bruce Hughes

Bhakti means devotion, or loving service. Normally when we use the word bhakti, it is short for bhakti-yoga, which means loving devotional service to the Supreme Lord. Yoga is the process of linking our individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness, the spiritual part with the spiritual whole; and bhakti is the method or process of devotional love.

Everyone wants to give and receive love, and bhakti, the yoga of love, is the perfection of our loving propensity. We have a desire to love and be loved because the same desire is there in Kṛṣṇa, and we are tiny particles or expansions of His spiritual energy. Kṛṣṇa has unlimited desire to exchange love with His parts and parcels, the living entities or souls. In bhakti-yoga, our love is directed toward the original person and the best object of love, the Supreme Lord or Kṛṣṇa.

Unlike mundane love, bhakti-yoga is completely satisfying. Ordinary people are riddled with imperfections. But because Kṛṣṇa has all eternal transcendental qualities—unlimited wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation—He is the perfect object of love, and He also reciprocates our love perfectly. Kṛṣṇa says, “All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward accordingly.” [Bhagavad-gita 4.11].

Kṛṣṇa can reciprocate loving exchanges with everyone because He is situated within everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. The Vedic literature teaches that the Supersoul remains in the heart along with every individual soul: “Both the Supersoul (Paramatma) and the living entity (jivatma) are situated on the tree of the body within the heart of every living being.” [Katha Upanishad 1.2.20] And Kṛṣṇa confirms, “I am in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul.” [Bhagavad-gita 7.21]

So if we want to find perfect love, we need look no further than our own heart, where Kṛṣṇa is situated as the Supersoul, ready to reciprocate our love and affection. As the original Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa has a very affectionate relationship with all His parts and parcels, the living entities. When we direct our affection and love toward Kṛṣṇa, He eagerly reciprocates, entangling the devotee more and more in a pleasurable network of ecstatic loving affairs. The transcendental engagement of spiritual love is so pleasing to the soul that the advanced bhakta feels no need for any other source of happiness. This is the unique and most exalted perfection of bhakti-yoga.

The topmost yoga system

Like all yoga systems, the original source of bhakti-yoga is the Vedic literature. There are so many instructions for different types of yoga practices in the Vedas and Tantras, but actually bhakti-yoga is the topmost yoga, or the supreme path among all the yoga systems given in the Vedas. How do we know this? While there are many stories in the Vedic literature of jnana-yogis, impersonalists and other kinds of yogis becoming bhakti-yogis, stories of bhaktas giving up bhakti and adopting other kinds of yoga practices are conspicuous by their absence.

The same thing is also directly confirmed in many places: “Bhakti means devotional service that is completely free from desire for material profit, either in this life or the next. One who is devoid of material desire can completely absorb the mind in the Supreme Lord. That is the purpose of all transcendental activities.” [Gopala-tapani Upanishad 1.15] “By attaining devotional service, the highest platform of spiritual life, one can overcome the influence of material energy and become situated in transcendental existence, as is the Lord.” [Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.29.14]

The meaning of this highly significant fact is that once a person adopts bhakti-yoga, he becomes so satisfied by transcendental realization that he never needs to resort to other yogic methods to attain his desires. Srila Madhavendra Puri, a great devotee and spiritual master in the line of Lord Caitanya, wrote, “O Lord, in my prayers three times a day, all glory to You! Bathing, I offer obeisance to You. O demigods! O forefathers! Please excuse me for my inability to offer you respects. Now wherever I sit, I can remember the great descendant of the Yadu dynasty, Kṛṣṇa, the enemy of Kamsa, and thereby I can free myself from all sinful bondage. I think this is sufficient for me.”

In the Vedic age, brahmanas were supposed to offer certain daily sacrifices to the demigods and forefathers. These are also a type of yoga practice, karma-yoga, and they are also part of yama and niyama, or the prerequisites for the eightfold yoga process (astanga-yoga). But since attaining constant remembrance of Kṛṣṇa through practicing bhakti-yoga, Srila Madhavendra Puri confesses that he is unable to divert his mind to such dry ritualistic practices. The ecstasy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, bhakti-yoga, is so sweet that he cannot make his mind give it up, even to perform other kinds of Vedic meditation and religious duties. So because of its spiritually pleasurable nature, bhakti-yoga is automatically superior to all other types of Vedic sacrifices and yogic performances.

The four Kumaras, the mental sons of Lord Brahma, were originally absorbed in impersonal meditation on the Absolute. But when they smelled the good flavor of the tulasi buds and other offerings to Lord Visnu in the temple, their senses became attracted. The Kumaras’ senses were highly purified by being the sons of Lord Brahma and by their many other spiritual qualifications. Still, their purified senses became attracted by the transcendental beauty of the offerings made in bhakti-yoga, and they also became bhaktas, lovers of the Lord. The Kumaras are such highly qualified sages, but if their senses were satisfied by engagement in bhakti-yoga, then certainly our senses also will be satisfied in bhakti.

Five flavors of ecstatic love

Thus the other practices of the yoga system are just preliminary to bhakti-yoga, which alone awards the highest perfection and the ultimate pleasure: the personal association of the Supreme Lord. The relationship between the jiva or individual soul and the Lord is very sweet, and this sweet relationship manifests in five primary flavors. One may relish devotional exchanges with the Lord in formal adoration, or as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover of the Lord.

Every living being is related with the Supreme Lord by some sort of affectionate relation, either as a servant, as a friend, as a parent or as an object of conjugal love. Kṛṣṇa is the perfect object of worship, the best Master, the eternal Friend, the dearmost Son and the most perfect Lover. Everyone thus can enjoy the company of the Lord in the spiritual realm according to their heart’s desire. Anyone can have this transcendental perfection of bhakti-yoga if he or she desires, and sincerely tries to attain it by the process of bhakti-yoga. However, to attain this ultimate yogic perfection, one must follow the prescribed process of bhakti-yoga as revealed in the Vedic scriptures.

In the beginning of bhakti-yoga one should think of himself as a servant of the Lord. One should perform chanting of the Holy Name, making offerings in the temple and the other traditional bhakti practices in the mood of an eternal servant. One should also serve one’s spiritual master and other great souls as a menial servant, ready to do anything for their comfort and convenience. One should also offer relevant inquiries into spiritual truth, and accept their merciful instructions as one’s life and soul. This is the beginning of the process of bhakti-yoga.

In the advanced stages of bhakti-yoga, after many years or even lifetimes of practice, one spontaneously develops a taste for serving the Lord in the style of a particular devotee. Thus one becomes attached to a great devotee and endeavors to emulate their service. At this time one discovers one’s primary form of attachment to devotional service, whether as a servant, friend, parent or conjugal lover.

The most famous servant of the Lord is Hanuman, who served the Lord in His transcendental incarnation of Rama. Hanuman exhibited superhuman prowess in serving the Lord as His umbrella, carrier, bodyguard, medical doctor, warrior and innumerable other ways. The transcendental relationship of Arjuna with Kṛṣṇa is in dearmost friendship. In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord Himself has claimed Arjuna as His dearmost friend. The Lord accepted Arjuna as His equal, and even served him in many ways, such as by driving his chariot in the Battle of Kuruksetra.

The great pure devotees Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda were Kṛṣṇa’s parents in Vrndavan, and they did everything to make Kṛṣṇa’s childhood a continuous festival of great happiness for their transcendental Child. And of course, Srimati Radharani is the Lord’s greatest lover. As the leader of all the gopis, Kṛṣṇa’s dearmost transcendental girlfriends, Radha alone can fully please Kṛṣṇa, because She is endowed with the best of all transcendental qualities, incomparable beauty, and intense and ever-increasing ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa.

As we advance in bhakti-yoga, we will automatically find ourselves attracted to the service of one of these particular devotees or group of devotees. We should emulate such great devotees in our own confidential service, and as we enter deeper into their attitudes and relationships with Kṛṣṇa, this becomes the key to ultimate success in bhakti. All these great devotees show us how to render service to Kṛṣṇa. Practicing bhakti-yoga means to follow in the footsteps of the great devotees; not to try to imitate them, but to model our inner relationship with Kṛṣṇa after their perfected attitudes and emotions. We should not speculate, but study the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees from authorized sources such as Srimad-Bhagavatam, the literatures of the Six Gosvamis of Vrndavan, and the lives of great saints and spiritual masters in disciplic lineage from the Lord. This will automatically guide us to the perfectional stage of pure love of Godhead.

Purity of heart

Srimad-Bhagavatam, the great literature of graduate-level study of the science of bhakti, is meant for the paramahamsa. That is, Srimad-Bhagavatam is meant for persons completely free from malice and envy. No one can understand it properly unless they are completely pure in heart. In the conditioned life of material consciousness, or maya, maliciousness and envy begin from bearing malice and envy against the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead is worshiped and described in the authentic scriptures of all religions, and the Bhagavad-gita especially reveals the personal feature of the Supreme Lord in detail. The climax of this great literature emphatically stresses that to be saved from the miseries of life, one should surrender unto the Personality of Godhead.

Unfortunately, persons with impure hearts do not have faith in the Personality of Godhead. The envious nature of the conditioned soul reaches the climax of absurdity when someone wants to become one with God, although he certainly cannot exhibit any of God’s qualities such as omnipotence, omnipresence and so on. Thus even the greatest nondevotional impersonalist philosopher cannot become a paramahamsa, because as long as he speculates on becoming one with the Supreme Lord, the envious mentality is there. This causeless envy of the Lord can only be purified by engagement in devotional service, especially chanting the Holy Name of the Lord. Therefore only those whose hearts are purified of all malice and envy by being fixed in the practice of bhakti-yoga can attain the exalted paramahamsa stage of life.

Full engagement in bhakti-yoga begins when a person has the firm conviction that simply discharging devotional service to the Lord in full transcendental love can elevate him to the highest perfectional stage of life. All the great souls, including Lord Brahma, the original teacher of the Vedas, had this firm faith in the art of bhakti-yoga. Srimad-Bhagavatam recounts how, in the beginning of the universe, Brahma accepted the instruction of the Lord to execute tapasya (penance). He discharged the Lord’s instruction by performing bhakti-yoga for 1,000 celestial years, and thus achieved the wonderful benediction of seeing the spiritual world, Vaikuntha, and shaking hands with the Lord. No one can reach Vaikuntha, the abode of the Supreme Lord, by any mechanical means of the mind or machine. But we can reach the abode of Kṛṣṇa simply by following the process of bhakti-yoga, because anyone can realize the Lord step-by-step through the bhakti-yoga process, provided they cleanse their heart of all malice and envy toward the Lord and all other living beings.

The mystery of bhakti

The Lord easily awards impersonal liberation from the bondage of material existence (mukti) even to the demons, yet He rarely awards the privilege of pure love of Godhead because the attractive pleasure potency of bhakti-yoga brings even the Lord Himself under control. The transcendental devotional service of the Lord is such a wonderful occupation that the deserving devotee is always rapt in internal devotional activities, without deviation from intimate contact with the Lord’s absolute touch. Therefore pure love of Godhead, always nurtured and developed in the heart of the devotee, is a great mystery.

Brahma-samhita 5.25 describes how the desires of Lord Brahma, the first living being in the universe, are always fulfilled because he is always absorbed in the transcendental loving service of the Lord by chanting the Holy Name of the Lord; nor has he any desire except the transcendental service of the Lord. That is the beauty and mystery of the process of bhakti-yoga. The Lord’s desire is infallible, therefore He is called acyuta; similarly the desires of the devotees in the transcendental service of the Lord are also acyuta, infallible. This is very difficult for the layman to understand without knowledge of the deep mysteries of devotional service described in the Vedic scriptures.

For example, ordinary persons cannot understand how the Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, but a devotee can actually see Him and speak with Him. Not only can the devotee see Him inwardly, but with spiritual vision, he can see that everything is resting in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as described in Bhagavad-gita [9.4]. That is the vision of a paramahamsa, a perfected devotee. He sees everything others see, but instead of seeing merely material objects, he sees everything in relationship with his worshipable Supreme Personality of Godhead, because everything is resting in the Supreme Lord.

Thus a paramahamsa, a highly elevated pure devotee, sees the Lord everywhere, as well as within the heart of everyone. This is possible for devotees who have developed the exalted state of pure devotional service to the Lord. As stated in the Brahma-samhita 5.38, “Only those who have smeared their eyes with the ointment of love of Godhead can see the Supreme Lord face-to-face everywhere.” This is not possible by imagination or impersonal so-called meditation.

The greatest opportunity

Human birth is very important. There are many other kinds of births besides human birth, but bhakti-yoga is possible only in the human form of life. Among human beings there are people in different classes of spiritual advancement. Of these, those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are called Aryans, meaning “those who are advancing in spiritual life.” Among Aryans, the Vedas consider one who engages in the devotional service of the Lord the most successful in spiritual life. The topmost type of Aryan is the paramahamsa, or perfected devotee.

Lower human beings and animals do not usually engage in the devotional service of the Lord. But in human society, everyone can engage in the devotional service of the Lord. There may be so many material distinctions for one who takes birth in human society, but despite all temporary material classifications, everyone is a child of God; therefore everyone should engage in the Lord's devotional service. It does not matter whether one is born woman or man, poor or rich, black or white, Indian or American. All these material classifications are simply temporary external material distinctions, whereas bhakti-yoga is the natural eternal activity of the soul.

For all practical purposes, the developed Western nations have given up God consciousness for economic development. They are struggling very hard for money, and are no longer interested in advancing in spiritual life. Earlier their forefathers engaged in executing religious principles, therefore so much material opulence became manifest. But now the current materialistic civilization is gradually exhausting all material resources because of its preponderance of impious activities. If one is actually interested in economic development, one should engage in devotional service, because Kṛṣṇa is the source of all opulence.

Whether one is Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian or whatever, everyone has some religious institution. But this distinction is also external, because all these faiths have a beginning and an end in time. Real religion means becoming Kṛṣṇa-conscious by practicing bhakti-yoga, the eternal activity of the soul. The Vedas consider that an activity is successful if it results in pleasing the Lord, and that one’s human birth is successful if one takes an interest in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Philosophical speculation or mental speculation is successful when engaged in understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The senses are worth possessing only when engaged in the service of the Lord, for this gives eternal happiness instead of the flickering happiness of material sense enjoyment.

Actually, devotional service means engaging the senses in the service of the Lord. At the present moment our senses are not purified; therefore our senses are always engaged in the service of society, friendship, love, politics, sociology, politics, money and so on. However, when the senses are engaged in the service of the Lord, one attains bhakti, or devotional service. This is the greatest opportunity available in the human form of life, because it leads to eternal freedom from suffering and unconditional pleasure on the spiritual platform.

Instructions from the Lord

The great incarnation of the Lord Rsabhadeva spoke the following highly beneficial instructions on bhakti-yoga to His sons before leaving to accept the renounced order of life:

“O My sons, you should accept a highly elevated paramahamsa, a spiritually advanced spiritual master. In this way, you should place your faith and love in Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You should detest sense gratification and tolerate the duality of pleasure and pain, which are like the seasonal changes of summer and winter. Try to realize the miserable condition of the living entities, even in the higher planetary systems. Philosophically inquire about the Absolute Truth. Then undergo all kinds of austerities and penances for the sake of devotional service. Give up the endeavor for sense enjoyment and engage always in the devotional service of the Lord. Listen to discussions about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and always associate with devotees.

“Chant about and glorify the Supreme Lord, and look upon everyone equally on the spiritual platform. Give up enmity, subdue anger and avoid lamentation. Abandon identifying the self with the body and the home, and practice regular reading and hearing of the revealed scriptures. Live in a sacred, secluded place and practice the yogic processes by which you can completely control your life air, mind and senses. Have full faith in the revealed scriptures, the Vedic literatures, and always observe celibacy. Perform your prescribed duties with concentration, avoiding unnecessary talks. Always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, acquire knowledge from the right source: the self-realized spiritual master of Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the devotional lineage. Thus practicing bhakti-yoga, you will patiently and enthusiastically be elevated in knowledge and will be able to transcend the false ego or illusory material identity.” [Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.10-13]

The ultimate secret

In Bhagavad-gita 10.10 the Lord says: “To those who are constantly devoted and who worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.” This instruction is very practical for everyone. A teacher instructs the student as long as the student is capable of taking more instruction. If the student cannot accept instruction, despite being instructed by the teacher, he will not make any progress in his understanding. This has nothing to do with partiality. The teacher can only teach if the student is ready to surrender.

Kṛṣṇa is prepared to give bhakti-yoga to everyone, but one must be ready to receive it and act upon it. This attitude of surrender is the secret to spiritual advancement. Thus when a person exhibits wonderful devotional activities, we can understand that Kṛṣṇa has been more favorable to this devotee because of his surrender. This is not difficult to understand, but envious persons do not accept that Kṛṣṇa has bestowed His favor upon a particular devotee in accordance with his advanced attitude of surrender. Such foolish persons become envious and try to minimize an advanced devotee's activities. Such a critical attitude is not bhakti-yoga, but material consciousness contaminated by malice and envy. A real devotee appreciates the service rendered to the Lord by other devotees, because the pleasure of the Lord is the devotee’s only concern. A real devotee is never envious of the Lord, other devotees or of anyone else.

The history of Kṛṣṇa, the historical person who appeared on this earth about 5,000 years ago, is recorded in the Vedic literature and openly discussed with everyone. Yet only those who are in love with the Supreme Personality of Godhead can appreciate the history of Kṛṣṇa. Others who have not developed their loving qualities think that the activities, form and attributes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are only myths. However, practice of bhakti-yoga is the only possible cure for their spiritual disease of material consciousness.

In medical science, it is well understood that people suffering from jaundice cannot taste the sweetness of sugar candy, although everyone knows that sugar candy is sweet. In fact, to the jaundice patient, sugar candy tastes unpalatably bitter. Nevertheless, sugar candy is the specific remedy for jaundice, and he must eat it to recover. Similarly, because of the disease of material consciousness, non-devotees cannot understand the transcendental name, form, attributes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although they hear of the Lord's activities, either through spiritual authorities or through history. But unless they accept the medicine of bhakti-yoga, and hear and chant the Lord’s glories, they cannot be relieved from their disease of material suffering.

The Puranas are authentic histories of ancient times, but non-devotees cannot understand them, especially Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is the distilled essence of Vedic knowledge. Non-devotees cannot understand even the neophyte study of transcendental knowledge, Bhagavad-gita. They simply speculate and present commentaries with absurd distortions. Therefore, only one who elevates himself to the transcendental platform by practicing bhakti-yoga can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His Holy Name, form, attributes and activities. But if by the association of a pure devotee, one somehow or other actually understands the Lord and His features, one immediately becomes a liberated soul.

The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita 4.9: “One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” Srila Rupa Gosvami, the greatest authority of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, has therefore said that by affection and love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, devotees can express their mind to Him with their words. Others, however, cannot do this, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita [18.55]: “One can know the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the Kingdom of God (Vaikuntha).”

Following in the footsteps of the great devotees, the Kṛṣṇa-consciousness movement is rendering service to humanity by giving everyone a chance to come in contact with Kṛṣṇa through bhakti-yoga. One who is fortunate becomes intimately related with this movement. Then, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, one's life becomes successful. Everyone has dormant Kṛṣṇa-bhakti—love for Kṛṣṇa—and that love is revealed in the association of pure devotees. As stated in Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila 22.107: “Dormant devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is within everyone. Simply associating with devotees, hearing their good instructions and chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, awakens one’s dormant love for Kṛṣṇa. In this way one acquires the seed of devotional service.” This is the most valuable secret of human life.

In the beginning, one has to hear very carefully and patiently from a bona-fide spiritual master situated in the disciplic lineage from Lord Kṛṣṇa. The hearing process is the most favorable opportunity for advancing in devotional service. According to this process, one hears, chants, remembers the Lord and engages in Deity worship, acting under the directions of the spiritual master. These are the essential primary activities of devotional service. Devotional service must not be executed for any material purpose. One should not even have a desire to merge into the Absolute Truth. To be successful, one has to render such service out of love and affection for the Lord and His devotees only.

Devotional service must be continuous and without ulterior motives; then no material condition can interfere with it. Gradually, by practicing according to the instructions of the spiritual master, one can rise from the beginning stage of regulated devotional service to the exalted platform of spontaneous loving service. In the beginning a child is sent to school by force, but if after some preliminary schooling he gets a little taste for advanced education, he participates in the higher educational process on his own initiative and becomes a learned scholar. One cannot force a person to become a scholar, but sometimes a little discipline is necessary in the beginning.

This is the difference between vaidi-bhakti, or regulated devotional service, and spontaneous devotion, raganuga-bhakti. Dormant love for Kṛṣṇa exists in everyone's heart, and it simply has to be awakened by the regulative process of devotional service. One has to learn to type by following the regulative principles of typing class. One has to place his fingers on the keys in such a way and practice. In the beginning this practice is troublesome, but when one becomes adept, he can touch-type swiftly and correctly. Similarly, in the beginning one has to follow the rules and regulations of devotional service as given by the spiritual master. This discipline may be a little troublesome; but after some practice, one comes automatically to the point of spontaneous loving service. This love is already there within the heart of everyone; it just has to be uncovered by the purifying process of bhakti-yoga.

Spontaneous devotional service is not artificial. One simply has to come to that platform by rendering devotional service according to the regulative principles. Thus one has to practice hearing and chanting, and follow the other regulative principles by rising early in the morning, cleansing oneself, washing the temple, offering mangala-arati and so on. If one does not come to the platform of spontaneous service in the beginning, he must adopt regulative service according to the instructions of the spiritual master. This regulative service is called vaidi-bhakti.

Kṛṣṇa says, “If one offers Me a leaf, a flower, fruit or water with love and devotion, I will accept it.” [Bhagavad-gita 9.26] It is not that Kṛṣṇa is hungry, and needs our offering of food. He already has everything. “He is feeding everyone, supplying everyone with all the necessities of life.” [Katha Upanishad 2.2.13]. What, then, is He requesting?

Kṛṣṇa’s request is to offer Him something with devotion. He is asking for an offering of bhakti, devotion, because He wants us to love Him. This small sacrifice will be beneficial to us. We are suffering in this material world, entangled in the tree of material existence, moving from one branch to another, and because of this we are suffering. Kṛṣṇa does not want us to suffer, transmigrating from one material body to another in the vain pursuit of material desire. He wants us to come to Him and surrender to Him. When we come to this understanding, we become perfect in knowledge.

When we take shelter at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, we are no longer debtors to anyone. “Anyone who has taken complete shelter of the lotus feet of Mukunda (Kṛṣṇa, the giver of liberation), giving up all kinds of obligatory duties, and has dedicated themselves to the bhakti path, owes neither duties nor obligations to the demigods, sages, living entities in general, family members, humankind or forefathers.” [Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.5.41]

Kṛṣṇa assures us, “Abandon all other varieties of religion and just surrender to Me. I will give you all relief from sinful reaction. Do not fear.” [Bhagavad-gita 18.66] In exchange for our complete loving surrender to Him, Kṛṣṇa is offering complete liberation from all suffering and eternal engagement in the ecstasy of loving exchanges with Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, according to our heart’s most cherished desire. This is the ultimate solution to all problems and the perfection of all religion, yoga and spiritual self-realization. This what everyone actually wants, and it is easily available through the ancient, powerful Vedic science of bhakti-yoga.

Next:

Yoga: The Big Picture

The Greatest Good

The Most Valuable Gift

The Most Confidential Knowledge