Bhakti is the path to Love; it is the simplest path to reach God Realization, but yet it is rarely achieved.
Bhakti is the simplest and sweetest way to reach God realization. God is beyond our senses, intellect, mind, & Maya.
Therefore, He is beyond our comprehension, he cannot be understood.
The only way God could be understand, if he showers His Divine Grace on us.
In order to be qualified to receive this Divine Grace, we must first surrender our mind 100% to him.
Since God is unlimited and Divine and our mind is material it would be difficult to comprehend him. There are Five type of Transcendental relationship we have toward the lord: Bhakti is having this sweet relationship with Lord Krishna. It directly relates to Lord Krishna, who is beyond Maya. This is why bhakti is called nirgun. It is very simple and sweet. All you have to do is having 100% faith in Him and He will bestow His Grace upon you. This faith, love, remembrance, asking and humbleness are called bhakti.
when you have faith in someone, you begin to like him. When you like him more, you begin to love him. When you love him, you like to serve him. When you serve him you become humble and like to be near him, and all that ends up into deep affinity. A true affinity has no demands and no requisites. There is only one desire to love him and to serve him and to make him happy, because you feel happy in his happiness; such feeling for Radha Krishna is bhakti.
Krishna says that whatever is the outcome of all kinds of devotional asceticism and selfless Vedic rituals, the outcome of yogic practices, the outcome of sattvic charity and social work, the outcome of any kind and any amount of religious practice, or any kind of good work or Godly work (dharma) whatever it could be, is all received through bhakti. He further says that the sattvic virtues like, renunciation, detachment from worldly attractions and attachments, and practical knowledge of soul’s eternal relationship with Krishna (gyan, vairagya) etc., are all the natural outcome of bhakti.
it is beyond imagination that Krishna could become a personal friend of yours in Divine Golok and behave like an obedient friend. It is also beyond imagination that His relational closeness could be experienced in such an absolute proximity in the heart where it is hard to find the demarcation line between you and Krishna, Whose fraternal love, in that absolute proximity, is increasing and increasing every moment, and will keep on increasing the same way forever, and you will be experiencing all of that in your heart and with every pore of your body, and your absolute experiencing ability will also absolutely increase to experience the ever-increasing, ever-new, ever-charming, and ever-exciting beauty, sweetness, charm, love, excitement and relational friendliness of your Divine beloved Krishna, and your Krishna remains with you all the time and desires to serve you by giving you His limitless love, affection, caring and protection all the time, forever.
Every aspect of such a love is beyond imagination. But that is not the end of it. In all respects, it limitlessly further deepens, sweetens, and enriches up to the maternal relationship like Mother Yashoda, and then up to the Gopis’ relationship. Furthermore, there are many classes of Gopis in Divine Vrindaban who are closer and closer to Radha, the Queen of Vrindaban, Who is the ‘life’ of Krishna. You can become one of these associates and live with Radha Krishna in Golok or Divine Vrindaban forever, only through bhakti.
O my Divine Beloved! O Supreme Lord Krishna! I have been suffering from countless sorrows as a result of having ignored You since beginning less time. Committing sins lifetime after lifetime has made my mind so impure that in spite of having learnt from your loving Saints that You are waiting fro me with open arms to embrace me and benevolent eyes to grace me, I still fail to surrender myself to you.
O Shelter of the shelter less! It is absolutely impossible to know You without Your grace.
In such a situation, O Causelessly-Merciful Sri Krishna! O Redeemer of sinful souls! Make me Yours with a glance of Your causeless grace.
O Ocean of Mercy! I have no desire for earthly or heavenly pleasures, nor do I seek liberation. My only desire is to love You selflessly.
O my Lord! Keeping Your reputation in mind, do not disappoint this fallen soul.
O Treasure of my life! I have suffered enough. Now I have come to realize that life without Your Love is more frightening than death itself.
Therefore, I beg of You again and again:
Give me alms of Yours Love.
All glories to Sri RadhaKrishna
All Glories to Sri Maharaja Ji
Bhakti is a divine power of god.
In order to receive this power, we have to win God.
Can anyone win god?
In order to win god, we must understand what god is.
God is known as AUM
He is one in number & at the same time, he is 2 in number.
Also neither one nor two.
He is neither He nor She.
He has form & at the same time he does not have form.
He is the Father of the universe & at the same time he is the Mother of the universe.
Therefore we have to a lot. A lot of what?
A lot of Devotion:
To increase our love for God, we must establish a transcendental Relationship to Lord Krishna.
As a Friend
As a Master
As a Parent
As a Child
As a Sweetheart