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Introduction- The term Bhakti simply means absolute love and annihilating devotion. A bhakt is a sadhak who applies bhakti, or world-dissolving devotion and absolute love to ultimate reality or the divine consciousness. Bhakti the absolute path of love is easily accessible because it allows for the practitioner to collect from personal everyday experiences of love to discover a connection with the ultimate reality.

Awaken divine ones brings serenity and joy of grace to the bhakts. It is not bound by rigid criteria, just listen and let your journey be transcendent.

Experience of Bhakti is like- unwinding of my soul it's like 'I cry of joy i cry for my grace, i feel raw and defenseless and that's what i feel. I feel timelessly pretty in the divine senses of the absolute truth.

Before Knowing What Is Bhakti

My cat is sick and i want it to get better. So I go to God and pray “Please cure my cat, please cure my cat.” In doing so i may seem like a great person but my focus is not truly on the divine it is on the cat.

All this material desires we take to God, it is not bhakti. This way, we are not doing real bhakti. It doesn't mean we should not seek help from God, but should we always approach god only to fulfill our material wishes?

Let’s say God fulfilled your wish. Do we surrender ourselves to God and let God guide the course of our lives, no matter what happen next? No. We thank God for fulfilling our wish , donate some money or make offerings and praising to payback god. Then we move on to asking for the next thing.

Instead, we should move beyond asking for material desires and learn to love God for the essential truth because it is the ultimate reality and we should eager to fana(annihilate ourselves) in that divinity.

What is Bhakti

Scriptures point out towards this when bhakti awaken every virtue follows and that is the hidden knowledge. You don't need to chase enlightenment you need to enjoy the journey of the path you followed. Bhakti is like insanity under control, obsession under your command, being free while being dependent on god, going through oneness in complexity and infinity, śūnyatā in padarths(matter). Bhakti is not meant to make you passive, it is to make you unstoppable, not thinking about "give me this give me that" but thinking about the ultimate reality.

Bhakti is not showing off it's knowing your true self. It's simply mean affinity of essential truth by commitment to ultimate reality. When you begin shower in bhakti you gonna go through following stages.

Stages of Bhakti:

Believing — First, you begin to believing.

Community — You start forming sangha or mixing with people who shares same aura of bhakti and awaken masters.

Commitment — You find yourself becoming committed to the essential truth.

Cleanliness — You begin to develop both spiritual and bodily hygiene.

Sensation — You start to sense the divine. A vibration begin and connection with it.

Union — You experience union with essential truth and ultimate reality, feeling oneness in infinity.

Annihilating Love — You dissolved in love. You are absorbed in it and get fana or reach śūnyatā.

Your breaths are not silent they are saying something. Pneuma is conscious enough to carry a thought so after the breathwork- reflect and write down what you noticed in a diary or notebook.

For example, you can ask yourself questions and write about them.

What did you notice about your breath?
Have you been breathing or just taking the air-in?
How conscious was your breath?
What did you notice about your vibration and mana(energy) before the breathwork?
What did you notice about your vibration and mana(energy) after the breathwork?
Was there a type of practice, ritual or routine you enjoyed or found to be more liberating?
When would you like to try including conscious breathing into your daily life?

Reflecting, contemplating, and looking inside and write'em down, write'em down and try to answer them at the movement or perhaps later.