Understanding Bhakti

Understanding Bhakti is an attempt of understanding the love for divine. There are several books available on Bhakti which deals with the subject either in the light of certain classical texts or from the point of view of certain sects of Bhakti. This work is in a way entirely different from them. It tries to present the emotion of love for God as a simple human experience that is given to human beings qua humans. For understanding that someone is in love with someone one does not need to study texts written on love. Love is so simple a human experience that everyone understand and it is rather very difficult for anyone to hide her /his love if she /he is in love. Love for God also is something that one can't hide if one actually loves God and it is not difficult at all for any human being to understand that someone is in love with God despite the fact that we don’t know whom we call God? The problem of understanding bhakti arises basically due to our misunderstanding about it that crops up from our attempts to understand it with certain fixed ideal about it. This small work is an humble attempt to put forth Bhakti as a simple human experience that all human beings can and do understand only if certain specific common and intellectual preoccupations are shaded from the mind. Contents:- Preface • Introduction • The Bhakta • Difference in the bhakta's understanding of bhakti and that of non-bhakta • Understanding Bhakti from the Bhakti's Stand Point • Bhakt - A Transformation of Doer into an Instrument of Lord • How a Bhakta Looks at the World • The World is a Boon only with Lord's Presence in it • Love - The Creative Power of Lord • Bhagavana - The Dear Lord of the Bhaktas • Understanding an Aspect of Bhakti - Movement • Bibliography • Index. The Title 'Understanding Bhakti written/authored/edited by H.P. Sah', published in the year 2007. The ISBN 9788178355979 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 280 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-