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maandag 14 oktober 2024

Bhakti yoga is the highest form of yoga. Sri Caitanya who popularised the chanting of the Maha Mantra was initiated into Siddha Maha Yoga as well. Never change a winning team.

In this 1969 discourse, Śrīla Prabhupāda focuses on the perfected stage of yoga practice. According to ancient Vedic teachings, the yoga system—beginning with haṭha-yogaprāṇāyāma (physical exercises and breath control) and karma-yoga—culminates in bhakti-yogathe yoga of devotion to the Personality of Godhead. “If one is fortunate enough to come to the point of bhakti-yogait is to be understood that one has surpassed all other yogas, says Śrīla Prabhupāda. “And the test of one’s mastery of bhakti-yoga is based on how much one is developing one’s love for God.”
yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntarātmanā
śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
sa me yuktatamo mataḥ
“And of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself, and renders transcendental loving service to Me—he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion.” [Bhagavad-gītā 6.47]

Here it is clearly stated that out of all the different kinds of yogīs—the aṣṭāṅga-yogī, the haṭha-yogī, the jñāna-yogī, the karma-yogī, and the bhakti-yogī—the bhakti-yogī is on the highest plat-form of yoga. Kṛṣṇa directly says, “Of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me... is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.” Since Kṛṣṇa is speaking, the words in Me mean “in Kṛṣṇa.” In other words, if one wants to become a perfect yogī on the highest platform, one should keep oneself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Source: https://prabhupadabooks.com/jsd/5/the_ultimate_yoga#:~:text=In%20this%201969%20discourse%2C%20Srila,to%20the%20Personality%20of%20Godhead. 

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