How can one practice bhakti without going through other yogas?
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our life how can one practice devotional service directly without going through all the other process of yoga that is by the process of bhakti sorry that is by the process of association of devotees normally a person will not have the evolved consciousness necessary to appreciate Krishna and bhakti on one’s own so on one’s own one may recognize this world is temporary say some loud one dies some terrible accident happens one may start thinking what is there beyond this world and one may start inquiring but the attraction to Krishna that is required for the practice of bhakti that comes by the association of devotees so if we can somehow associate with devotees and from those devotees get the attraction for Krishna then we also start practicing bhakti now we have to understand sometimes we say that bhakti is the highest process therefore I am the highest transcendent it is not like that see it is like the various process of yoga are like a ladder or like a staircase and bhakti yoga is like the elevator so it is very much possible that there may be ashtang yogis there may be gyan yogis there may be karma yogis who may if there is a hundred story building they may be on the 95th story and we may be bhakti yogis who are just on the second or third story right so actually in terms of practical living in terms of detachment in terms of sattva guna it is possible that other yogis may also be presently more advanced than bhakti yogis but because they don’t have attraction to krishna because they are not associated with devotees so they have not entered into the elevator that’s why their progress they may be more progress than us right now but their progress will be slower more laborious like climbing stairs one by one one by one step whereas we if we get the association of devotees it’s like entering into the elevator once you have entered into the elevator if you stay in the association of devotees then that association will keep increasing our attraction to krishna and will keep moving onwards upwards towards krishna so the way we can get the opportunity to practice devotional service directly without going through all the other processes is by the association of devotees