Bhakti Yogi

Bhakti yogi: 

it's my consideration is that I'm a bhakti yogi, devotional by nature, and that my every cause is of eventual surrender to the divine. By this I don't mean surrendering to the concept of a deity that appears distant and separate from me at any point, my devotion isn't to a personal god at all, but to the intimacy of the impersonal ground of all existence, life, and every detail that it offers. My devotion is to my own state of being, through every aspect of its support and pleasure. God is sustaining me through air and the ability of taking breath, that my heartbeat is a devotional song in praise of my own existence, and that my every sense is an instrument of God's measure. I am devoted to all that's given to me, everything that's gifted to sustain me, and this leaves absolutely nothing from my worship. 

life itself urges my devotion.

a bhakti yogi is one who is aware of divine relationships, and the deeper appreciation of this is found when all of life appears holy, everything being an aspect of self and God, one thing really, and the world exists to offer distinction of this wonder, awe, and beauty. To be a bhakti yogi is self surrender to the appearance of something other, a reflection only, devotion to their own capacity to hold the world. Nothing is worshiped that isn't of their own becoming. It's all God. It's all self. Everything. Truly a relationship of one thing only, divided for the sake of its devotion. 

and this is why my very end path is one of surrender, devotional to the point of disappearance within the whole, a bhakti yogi in worship of his own self reflection appearing as the details of the world. It's a continuous surrender of this small drop of self knowledge into the larger waters of an ocean's depth - and always again I seem to crest in self awareness, ready once more to give myself away. I'm a bhakti yogi for love of this existence, my own surrender and rebirth, continuous and at once, worshiping life through every aspect of its divine play. 

devotional by nature. 

~

Peace, Eric