Bhakti yoga

I'm from David Prayag in the Himalayas.

This is Wisdom of the Sages, a Bhakti Yoga podcast with your host Raghunath and co-host and senior educator at the Bhakti Center in New York City, Kostu Bidas.

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It's Wednesday, October 28th, 2026.

So which is why in the 12th chapter, which is entitled Bhakti Yoga, Krishna enumerates 35 qualities of a Bhakta.

Nowhere does he say that you have to do puja part.

Nowhere does he say you have to go on a pilgrimage, obeisance to a particular deity.

And then when you look at the world, you look at it not as per se objects or beings, you look at them as manifestations of that power.

And so the same love spreads to them.

So which is why in the 12th chapter, which is entitled Bhakti Yoga, Krishna enumerates 35 qualities of a Bhakta.

Nowhere does he say that you have to do puja part.

Nowhere does he say you have to go on a pilgrimage or obeisance to a particular deity.

So I was sitting at this Shabbos table with these people, and they said, you know, we're in Tabakti.

And there's Bhakti Yoga, there's Bhakti, the path of devotion.

So I said to him, I'll just tell you the truth that Judaism is the perfect divine synthesis of all of the four paths of yoga.

Yoga means unification by the way.

And I said, that's what nigunim is.

But I said, I pulled out a siddur and I showed them yadid nefesh.

You want some bhakti yoga, yadid nefesh.

Beloved of my soul.

So it's largely an intellectual branch of yoga.

Then we have Bhakti Yoga.

Bhakti Yoga is more about adoration of the divine.

It's known as the path of devotion.

And avatars such as Krishna are thought to be divine incarnations of that abstract oneness.

Each soul is potentially divine.

The goal is to manifest this divinity within.

Do this either by work worship or psychic control or philosophy by one or more or all of these and be free so here we have let's see we have by work would be the karma yoga by worship would be the bhakti yoga by psychic control or control of the mind would be the Raja Yoga or by philosophy would be the Janani Yoga.

時には場所が、時には時が、時には状況が望ましくない時もある。

In the 12th chapter of Bhagavad Gita, Krishna speaking about bhakti yoga.

ギーター十二章では、バクティヨーガについてクリシュナが話します。

Arjuna is asking after the 11th chapter when he saw the universal form.

In the 12th chapter, Arjuna asking what is better, impersonal worship or personal worship?

And at the apex of your individuated consciousness is your I am presence.

So what I do is clear every obstacle out of the way so you can tap into your I am presence as deeply as possible and bring that love and wisdom down to Earth.

And I'm especially known for getting rid of curses and demons and entities and things like that.

And so the question is, well, how did you get to this point? Were you born enlightened or something like this? And y- not at all.

And, uh, so they, they exploit whatever your weakness is.

And by getting rid of these obstacles, especially the curses, then people can connect with their higher self.

They bring down that love and wisdom down to their-- to the, to the Earth and share it with the world.

And people ask me, "Well, aren't you-- do you wanna just keep giving away all these secrets like this?" I said, "Of course." "But then you won't-- you'll lose your competitive advantage." I said, "No.

Both work through recognition, both target the fundamental misidentification, and both arrive at liberation through seeing what was always already the case.

Bhakti Yoga is the path of devotion.

It pursues liberation through the total surrender of the individual self to the divine.

The devotee's love for the personal God grows until the boundary between the lover and the beloved dissolves.