By Edwin F. Bryant
From the writer of what has develop into the normal version of The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, an exploration of doubtless the main major culture in Hinduism, besides a rendering of key texts and parables from that tradition
Bhakti Yoga explores one of many 8 “limbs” of yoga. within the easiest phrases, bhakti yoga is the perform of devotion, that is the fundamental center of yoga and of Hinduism usually. lately, the time period has end up utilized in a slightly simplistic option to consult with the more and more renowned perform of kirtan, or chanting in a bunch or at huge gatherings. yet bhakti yoga is way extra complicated and historic than today’s turning out to be kirtan audiences are conscious, and embraces many strands and practices. Edwin F. Bryant makes a speciality of one well-known and demanding tuition of bhakti and explores it extensive to teach what bhakti is and the way it really is expressed. And he offers his personal renderings of imperative texts from that culture within the kind of “tales and teachings” from a tremendous paintings referred to as the Bhagavata Purana, or “The attractive Legend of God.” This clarifying paintings establishes a baseline for realizing, and may be welcomed by way of all severe scholars of the religious history of India.
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