"Navavidha Bhakti" The 9 forms of devotion by Sri Chaganti (Part-3) | చాగంటి నవవిధ భక్తి | J3TV

"Navavidha Bhakthi" The 9 forms of devotion by Sri Chaganti (Part-3) | చాగంటి వారి నవవిధ భక్తి | J3TV

The nine forms of devotion are: Shravanam – Hearing the names and glories of the Lord

Paada sevanam – Serving the Lord’s feet

Keertanam – Chanting His glories Smaranam – Remembering the Lord Archanam – Worshiping the Lord

Sakhyam – Developing friendship with the Lord

Vandanam – Offering obeisance unto the Lord Daasyam – Serving the Lord as His servant

A devotee can practice any of these nine forms of bhakti, whichever suits his nature best. Ramakrishna-Hugging-Murti Ramakrishna Paramahansa did not serve for long as head priest of the Kali temple at Dakshineshwar. From the first days of his service in the shrine of the goddess Kali, he was filled with a rare form of the love of God known in Hinduism as maha-bhava. Worshipping in front of the statue of Mother Kali, Ramakrishna would be overwhelmed with such ecstatic love for the deity that he would fall to the ground and immersed in spiritual trance, lose all consciousness of the external world.

Aatma Nivedanam – Total surrender of oneself to the Lord

These experiences of God-intoxication became so frequent that he was relieved of his duties as temple priest but allowed to continue living within the temple compound. During the next twelve years Ramakrishna journeyed even deeper into this passionate and absolute love for the divine. His practice was to express such intense devotion to particular deities that they would physically manifest to him and then merge into his being.

Ramakrishna attained samadhi in 1886 at the age of fifty but his life, his intense spiritual practices, and the temple of Kali where many of his ecstatic trances occurred continue to attract pilgrims from all over. Ramakrishna fully realized the infinite and all-inclusive nature of the divine. He was a conduit for divinity and the presence of that divinity can still be clearly experienced at the Kali temple of Dakshineswar.

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It is said that knowledge without bhakti is useless tinsel. Let us then know the nine forms of devotion that would take us closer to the Supreme.