{"id":405,"date":"2026-05-30T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennainew\/?p=405"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:51:36","slug":"bhakti-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/teachings\/bhakti-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhakti Yoga (Devotion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div 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fusion-text-1\"><p><em>\u201cGod is love and love is God.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<em>~Swami Sivananda, Bhakti Yoga<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color5);--awb-margin-top-small:10px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:10px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:36;line-height:var(--awb-typography1-line-height);\">Bhakti Yoga (Devotion)<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator\" style=\"align-self: flex-start;margin-right:auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:25px;width:100%;max-width:200px;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;--awb-sep-color:var(--awb-color4);border-color:var(--awb-color4);border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Bhakti Yoga trains how you relate. At the centre, this is experienced in satsang\u2014chanting, kirtan, and collective prayer. The structure is simple: a few chants, silence, and a shared focus.<\/p>\n<p>Singing together has a direct effect. Attention moves away from personal concerns and into the sound itself. Even those unfamiliar with chanting begin to feel a sense of ease after a few sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The teaching goes deeper than emotion. Devotion is not limited to music or ritual. It is the ability to stay open, even in difficulty. Gratitude, patience, and humility grow from this practice.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, Bhakti reduces emotional friction. Reactions soften, and connection improves\u2014with others and with one\u2019s own inner state.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-paths-of-yoga","category-teachings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sivananda.org.in\/chennai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}