Re: Bhakti in Advaita
Dear Ale84,
Japa, Pranayama, Prayer etc are methods to still the mind.
Its possible to make the mind very calm and single pointed with some simple practices.
Japa is a very powerful tool. Sri Krishna himself mentions that he is japa amongst spiritual practices. Its such a wonderful technique. With the aid of proper understanding it can lead to liberation.
We should understand however that the aim of vedanta is not to calm the mind... it is to understand that i am not the mind ! This is a reverse approach ... one approach is to calm the mind and hold it like that. Another approach is to eliminate the reason for agitation so that it automatically remains calm.
Love!
Silence
Come up, O Lions, and shake off the delusion that you are a sheep
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