Normal bhakti, an actual flow of love for God, is wonderful. However, it’s really just the beginning. If you are fortunate, your bhakti prepares your nerves and mind for higher intensities of ecstatic love called prema.

Trickles of love can become a mighty life-renewing river. This state of intense love is called prema. In prema, your love soars, roars and explodes into ongoing ecstatic love. You discover you are one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Through bhakti yoga you can transcend superficial feelings and discover the already flowing river of love inside you. Bhakti helps you release the emotions which bother and block you.

One of the great things about yoga is that you come just as you are. You don’t need to read or study before you begin. Since the huge majority of people are governed by their feelings, bhakti yoga can help one receive numerous gifts from the Infinite, including peace, great happiness and enlightenment.

This is a checklist of birthday reflections which will help you understand how connected you are to God, Spirit and others. Learn how you can live a healthier, happier life with greater goodwill.

Yogis define love as the state of emotion which expresses as an ongoing, dynamic giving of oneself. Real love reveals itself in the way we treat ourselves and others. Love lifts us into lila, the divine play.

We focus on Pema Chodron’s discourses on the seven steps of loving kindness. As we live with open hearts, we rejoice in ordinary things and realize we are living in a sacred world.

Living for God is the fastest way to grow in yoga awareness — the jet plane method. Yogis call living for God Radha realization in reverence for the total adoration and service Radha rendered Krishna in ancient years. The term Radha represents the individual soul in an interplay with the Lord.

Japa, consciously repeating sacred syllables, or phrases, over and over again, takes us to a state of concentration and devotion. Explore several ways of chanting which help you enjoy deeper meditations and become more spiritually aware.

Ramakrishna Ananda shares three ways you can be renewed through yoga. Practices from Patanjali and Sri Ramakrishna re-establish us on the spiritual path. We can enjoy yoga-empowering vacations whenever we like.