The present text corresponds to the school of bhakti—yoga, which is one of the four classic principal branches of traditional Yoga.

The word bhakti comes from the Sanskrit root "bhaj", which means to be found attached to The Divine. The bhakti—yoga is the yoga of devotion, of love, it is the way of the heart.

Do you think that hate and violence are a powerful energy?, well I will tell you that there is no greater power in this world from the power of love.

Within all the different branches of yoga to know, karma, raja, jnana, laya, nada, tantra, kundalini; the bhakti is the most sublime as far as its effectiveness in producing this situation, this so desired opening of the heart and opening the doors to the transcendental. The bhakti—yoga begins, manifests and is based on the love; the love and nothing but it is its principal theme. The bhakti holds the capacity lead the human heart from the sentimentalism, the emotions and the material attachment to the Divine love and the most elevated and pure devotion, which is a tremendous energy capable of directing the diffused rays of our attention towards the transcendental.

Although we find elements of bhakti in every of the branches of yoga, for the bhakta, unlike others, the love would be his practice, his meditation and his entire reason of being and existing. This means, not only a means but also at the same time the ends. This supreme devotion acquires for the bhakta a value more valuable than liberation itself; he does not aspire for any realization if it lacks that savor of love.

Without the doubt the bhakta, or bhakti follower, is a lover of the love.

Observing the human being we see that without love there exists no possibility of a real development. We can give a child everything necessary for his growth, study, food, clothes, nevertheless if the house and family lack the tenderness and love surely he will no be able to develop sanely. The love cures even physical and nerve illnesses; truly is that without love there exists no possibility of developing in the spiritual life.

The bhakti culminates a disappearance as a personal entity, it is merging in the ocean of eternal bliss that is The Divine. Love is that, is the sweet acid which dissolves us as ego, as someone or something with proper desires and ambitions. In the measurement that the love flourishes in our hearts it is the other who acquires the central place in our lives. It is the other who preoccupies us, his desires and aspirations, his achievements bitterness.

To love is in some way to be or become less, as ego. To love is to die a little, it is to live being a new and refreshing dimenion of the other, in reality to love is simply the dissolution of egoism. To love is to die for the world, it is to be reborn in Krishna, it is to be reborn in The Divine. That is the meaning of the spiritual life, without difference of cultures, organizations, institutions, or creeds. That is religion, the death and disappearance of what we believe to be and at the same time a rebirth, from our dream to the reality of what we are, "Jiv jago, jiv jago" will continue to sing the bhakta, this lovely song of a great Bengali master of bhakti that was Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, "Jiv jago, jiv jago"..." awaken dear sleeping soul, please awaken, awaken, and this awakening is to...love."

The bhakti does not fit comprehension or understanding without love and devotion, a master of bhakti—yoga, upon seeing your comprehension problems will not place too much emphasis on your intellectual studying, although it holds its importance, but rather on your heart. Love my dear, love, this is the real way to understand the transcendental...Bhagavad—gita (18:55):

Bhaktya mam abhijanati

"The best path for understanding The Divine is the love"... the Bhakti is the door to The Divine because the heart is able to caress God...

In many opportunities I have said that the great sages that passed on our planet, were not considered great for their memory, knowledge, powers or ability to attract great number of disciples, but rather they were recognized as "mahatmas" or great souls for their capacity to love.

In the bhakti and in this life you do not evolve and grow in years or height, but in the extent to which your heart extends and is able to love, that is to say, you grow as much as your capacity to love grows, your love will be the only and true exam of maturity.

Even though the bhakti speaks of love, he does not hold in him jealousy and all the manifestations that accompany attachment and mundane sentimentalism. It has no boundaries, limits of creed or race, the fanaticism does not fit in the yoga.

Regarding the author of the present work, Sri Narada Muni, we know by the repeated mentions that are made of him in the different Upanisads, Puranas and Itihasas, even though the greatest amount of information we have about him proceeds form the Srimad Bhagavatam and the Mahabarata

Yogāchārya Bhaktivedanta Ramakrishnananda Swami Maharaja