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The Path of Devotion (Bhakti)

Not analysis but love — the heart's road to a God who answers it.

Bhakti as a path is the way of loving devotion: liberation reached not by intellectual analysis but by wholehearted love of, and surrender to, a personal God. For the theistic Vedāntas it is the highest road, because the goal itself is loving communion with the Lord. (Bhakti is also treated under 'Devotion, Deity & the Divine,' where its scope as a whole orientation of the heart is taken up.)

How it traveled

  1. Bhagavad-gītā
    Kuru-Pañcāla region · -150
    explains

Key passages(7)

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

Very high

Bhagavad-gītā · Vyāsa (Yoga-bhāṣya commentator)

High

Gītārtha-saṃgraha · Yāmunācārya (Ālavandār)

High

Gheraṇḍa-saṃhitā · (attributed to Gheraṇḍa)

High

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

High

Śiva-stotrāvalī · Utpaladeva

High

Upadeśasāhasrī · Ādi Śaṅkara

Moderate