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DEFINITION OF BHAKTI.
There is not really so much difference between Knowledge (Inána) and Love (Bhakti) as people sometimes imagine. We shall see as we go on that in the end they converge and meet at the same point. So also with Raja-Yoga, which, when pursued as a means to attain liberation, and not (as unfortunately it frequently becomes in the hands of charlatans and mystery-mongers) as an instrument to hoodwink the unwary, leads us also to the same goal.
The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest, and the most natural way to reach the great divine end in view ; its great disadvantage is that in its lower forms it often times degenerates into hideous fanaticism. The fanatical crew in Hinduism, or Mahomedanism, or Christianity, have always been almost exclusively recruited from these worshippers on the lower planes of Bhakti. That singleness of attachment (Nishtha) to a loved object, without which
