Understanding Bhakti

Understanding Bhakti is an attempt of understanding the love for divine. There are several books available on Bhakti which deals with the subject either in the light of certain classical texts or from the point of view of certain sects of Bhakti. This work is in a way entirely different from them. It tries to present the emotion of love for God as a simple human experience that is given to human beings qua humans. For understanding that someone is in love with someone one does not need to study texts written on love. Love is so simple a human experience that everyone understands and it is rather very difficult for anyone to hide her/his love if she/he is in love. Love for God also is something that one can’t hide if one actually loves God and it is not difficult at all for any human being to understand that someone is in love with God despite the fact that we don’t know whom we call God? The problem of understanding Bhakti arises basically due to our misunderstanding about it that crops up from our attempts to understand it with certain fixed ideas about it. This small work is an humble attempt to put forth Bhakti as a simple human experience that all human beings can and do understand only if certain specific common and intellectual preoccupations are shaded from the mind.