Bhakti Yoga Quotes

“All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e. by hating every other ideal.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga

“For one kiss of Thy lips, O Beloved! One who has been kissed by Thee, has his thirst for Thee increasing for ever, all his sorrows vanish, and he forgets all things except Thee alone. Aspire after that kiss of the Beloved, that touch of His lips which makes the devotee mad, which makes of man a god. To him, who has been blessed with such a kiss, the whole of nature changes, worlds vanish, suns and moons die out, and the universe itself melts away into that one infinite ocean of love. That is the perfection of the madness of love.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“O king, such are the, glorious qualities of the Lord that the sages whose only pleasure is in the Self, and from whom all fetters have fallen off, even they love the Omnipresent with the love that is for love's sake.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“My beloved boy, alone, in the beginning there existed the One without a second. That saw and felt, "I will give birth to the many." That projected heat.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“Before every one of them was made, they all existed potentially in the clay, and, of course, they are identical substantially; but when formed, and so long as the form remains, they are separate and different; the clay-mouse can never become a clay-elephant, because, as manifestations, form alone makes them what they are, though as unformed clay they are all one.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“through the mercy of the Lord, reaches a plane where pedantic and powerless reason is left far behind, and the mere intellectual groping through the dark gives place to the daylight of direct perception. He no more reasons and believes, he almost perceives. He no more argues, he senses. And is not this seeing God, and feeling God, and enjoying God higher than everything else?”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“on account of their possessing their own minds, it is possible that their wills may differ, and that, whilst one desires creation, another may desire destruction. The only way of avoiding this conflict is to make all wills subordinate to some one will.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion

“That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else.”
― Vivekananda, Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion