The Way of Devotion

All this is part of the devotion which is one with concentration, because it comes from the love of truth, because you love the true Life, the Source of all good. You love the All Good, you love to express good and are devotcd to it, and the first thing you know, you are quite self-possessed, poised and peaceful, and you have never thought about concentration.

The Hindus call concentration “Yoga,” and concentration by devotion, Bhakti Yoga. According to their teaching there are four paths which the devotee of right concentration, or “union with God,” can take: The path called Bhakti Yoga or the heart way, through loving without reasoning about it, only devoting your whole heart to God; the second way, Raja Yoga, wherein the soul and its psychic powers arc given over to devotion, the aspirations and all that is spiritual in us being devoted to the one God; the third, Gnana Yoga, or giving the whole mind, making the union with God through giving all the reasoning or intellect; and the fourth, the way of our strength, our works, called Karma Yoga, wherein one gives one’s self to serving the Spirit in our works, doing everything for the Lord, giving all our strength to this Divine One.

The Way of Jesus Christ

"But behold. I show you more excellent way" than these four, and that is a combination of the four, as described in Jesus’ presentation of the first of all the Commandments: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy