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BHAKTI-YOGA.
necessary for a bird to fly--the two wings and the tail as a rudder for steering. Jnana (Knowledge) is the one wing, Bhakti (Love) is the other, and Yoga is the tail that keeps up the balance. For those who cannot pursue all these three forms of worship together in harmony, and take up, therefore, Bhakti alone as their way, it is necessary always to remember that forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.
There is a little difference in opinion between the teachers of Knowledge and those of Love, though both admit the power of Bhakti. The nanins hold Bhakti to be an instrument of liberation, the Bhaktas look upon it both as the instrument and the thing .to be attained. To my mind this is a distinction without much difference. In fact, Bhakti, when used to signify an instrument
