Attachment through glory. Attachment through duty. Attachment through worship. Attachment as a servant. Attachment as friend. Attachment as beloved. Attachment as a child. Attachment as self-sacrifice. Attachment by identification. Attachment by misery in separation (as in the case of lovers). Thus the one Love takes eleven modes.
There are an almost infinite number of methods in yoga. Each mind must choose according to its idiosyncrasy. “Attachment to glory” is by wonder and admiration of power, grandeur, etc., as manifested in the universe. “Through beauty” is the aesthetic method, through art, etc. All forms are beautiful as displaying the work of the Lover. “Through worship” explains itself, as do the rest. By “misery and separation” is through finding happiness only when God is remembered, when He is, as it were, present in the heart, and through feeling that all is desolate when in looking out upon the objective transient worlds that One Eternal is forgotten.
83. Thus say Kumāra, Vyāsa, Śāṇḍilya, Garga, Viṣṇu, Śeṣa, Uddhava, Vāruṇi, Bali, Hanumān, Vibhīṣaṇa, etc., who were teachers of Love (bhakti), and who were fearless whether what they said was considered prattle or wisdom.
There are an almost infinite number of methods in yoga. Each mind must choose according to its idiosyncrasy. “Attachment to glory” is by wonder and admiration of power, grandeur, etc., as manifested in the universe. “Through beauty” is the aesthetic method, through art, etc. All forms are beautiful as displaying the work of the Lover. “Through worship” explains itself, as do the rest. By “misery and separation” is through finding happiness only when God is remembered, when He is, as it were, present in the heart, and through feeling that all is desolate when in looking out upon the objective transient worlds that One Eternal is forgotten.
83. Thus say Kumāra, Vyāsa, Śāṇḍilya, Garga, Viṣṇu, Śeṣa, Uddhava, Vāruṇi, Bali, Hanumān, Vibhīṣaṇa, etc., who were teachers of Love (bhakti), and who were fearless whether what they said was considered prattle or wisdom.