True Meaning of Bhakti || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: If you love Krishna, why avoid/distort the Gita? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2023)

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00:00Bhakti is not at all about personification. Who has put these concepts to you?

00:06Sikhism for example is entirely a religion of devotion and tell a Sikh that God is a person

00:14and he'll not spare you. Bhakti is not about imagining something. All imagination arises

00:21from the ego and therefore all imagination is just ego fodder. This is a very unfortunate

00:29kind of cult that has developed over the last 50-70 years. The cult of imagination,

00:36romantic kind of imagination. By romantic I do not necessarily mean man-woman.

00:40Romantic means pleasing kind of imagination. Think of a pleasing God.