Send us a text Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Bhakti Marga: The Devotional Path | In Quest of Truth - Q&A with Babaji, No.203 Recorded on 7th December 2024 with worldwide participants. 0:00 Intro 0:05 How do you define bhakti? Ramana Maharshi has said that bhakti is the mother of jnana. 4:46 How can one devote their total attention to the Divinity which is all around? Is bhakti possible with or without image? 8:04 Is it possible to have devotion to the Divinity without taking a deity as your focus? 12:10 If I do rituals to one particular deity, can that benefit my mind and how can it expand my love to the pure formless Divinity? 19:35 When in the duality and you perceive your Deity as higher than you, does it help the mind or is it also a process of going to the ultimate? 23:40 For busy householders, can everyday rituals to a deity purify the mind? 30:15 Is it wrong to worship deities with certain expectations of results which that particular deity can bring? 43:27 What are the stages of the devotion path? 46:55 How do bhakti and dhyana (meditation) support each other? 49:29 Is everyone capable of feeling that love in bhakti? 51:34 Is love absent if I just practice meditation, without following the bhakti marga? 52:54 Is it ok to focus our prayers to particular deities according to our needs? 54:53 What is the difference to the bhakti Babaji had to Swamiji at the beginning compared to now? 57:07 When Babaji talks about all the sages and deities, is that all Swamiji to you? ___ Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/ Register your free place for the live online meditation and Q&A with Babaji: https://www.shivarudrabalayogi.org/en/online-satsang Website: http://www.srby.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shivarudrabalayogi Twitter: https://twitter.com/SRBYmission Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivarudrabalayogi/
