RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Essential Yoga — Your Habits — Part 3

Find out how you can reflect more love and compassion every day

Yoga changes our samskars (habits). Learn which yoga is best at upgrading your samskars. One true indicator of progress in yoga is the development of new habits which lead toward soul and Spirit.

Essential Life Skills, Habits, Bhakti Yoga

A Mood of Divine Love

One day you feel so much love that you forget your body. You become absorbed in the awareness of God, Spirit, the Infinite Spirit. You’re aware of only two things: God and you in a wondrous connection, a wondrous union. It’s marvelous. This immersion is called a bhava. Your bhakti grows into this beautiful mood of divine love.

Learn why Sri Ramakrishna said that bhakti yoga, the yoga of love, is the easiest and most natural yoga for people of our time
If you want to know how you are doing in yoga, look at whether your character is changing in a positive way
Is it true that devotion alone is enough? Hear Ramakrishna Ananda’s answer

Discover how to progress from the samskars of harmony, to peace, to bliss
Faith leads to the search for meaning, to yearning, to one-pointedness, to discovery of the heart’s natural feeling
As Baba Hari Dass wrote: “The true indicator of progress is not devotion, but samskar change.”