NAVADHA BHAKTI By Swami Pratyagbodhananda Friday, January 23, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM in ENGLISH

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NAVADHA BHAKTI

Navadha Bhakti in English

By  Swami  Pratyagbodhanandaji

Friday, January 23rd,  7:15 PM – 9:00 PM

  Swami Pratyagbodhanandaji, a disciple of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati follows the traditional methods of the teaching of Vedanta. Swami Pratyagbodhananda is at home in handling three languages - English, Gujarati and Hindi. He teaches in all these languages, not only Vedantic texts like the Gita, Upanisads, Panchadasi, and the like, but also Tulsi's Ramayana and the Bhagavata Purana. Swami Pratyagbodhanada has had extensive satsang with Swami Akhandananda Saraswati and his disciples in Brindavan. His discourses on Ramayana and Bhagavatam reflect these invaluable devotion-rich satsangs.   http://www.arshavidya.org

Navadha Bhakti – The Nine Steps of Devotion. These nine steps of devotional service are described as helping the devotee remain constantly in touch with God. In the Ramayana, Lord Rama explains the nine types of devotion or penance to Shabri.

       The Bhagavata Purana teaches nine primary forms of bhakti, as explained by Prahlada:(1) śravaṇa (“listening” to the scriptural stories of Kṛṣṇa and his companions), (2) kīrtana (“praising,” usually refers to ecstatic group singing), (3) smaraṇa (“remembering” or fixing the mind on Viṣṇu), (4) pāda-sevana (rendering service), (5) arcana (worshiping an image), (6) vandana (paying homage), (7) dāsya (servitude), (8) sākhya (friendship), and (9) ātma-nivedana(complete surrender of the self). (from Bhagata Purana, 7.5.23-24)
Navadha Bhakti:- Nine ways or forms of devotion

           These nine moral values of devotional service are described as helping the devotee remain constantly in touch with God. The processes of japa and internal meditation on the aspirant devotees’s chosen deity form (ishta deva) are especially popular in most bhakti schools. Bhakti is a yoga path, in that its aim is a form of divine, loving union with the Supreme Lord. The exact form of the Lord, or type of union varies between the different schools, but the essence of each process is very similar.

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