Though Bhakti yoga is generally viewed as love for and service to God, Bhakti can, and should be understood, in a much broader context, that as the way of devotion. This view includes a greater segment of individuals as it recognizes that women and men often devote themselves to a partner, to parents, to their children, to their study, to their work, to their calling as well as to their God.
Yogic scholar Archie Bahm elaborates: “The more one devotes himself to whatever he has committed himself to, the more he unites himself with it, the more he projects himself into it and the more he finds his own worth and value identified with it. Such identification is a kind of yoga. This is because the more a person feels at one with whatever he is dedicated to, the less he feels himself opposed to it. Feelings of opposition naturally generate tension and anxiety.”
Yogic scholar Archie Bahm elaborates: “The more one devotes himself to whatever he has committed himself to, the more he unites himself with it, the more he projects himself into it and the more he finds his own worth and value identified with it. Such identification is a kind of yoga. This is because the more a person feels at one with whatever he is dedicated to, the less he feels himself opposed to it. Feelings of opposition naturally generate tension and anxiety.”
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