The Way To Raga-bhakti
It isn't any and every kind of bhakti that enables one to realize God. One cannot realizes God without prema-bhakti. Another name for prema-bhakti is raga-bhakti. God cannot be realised without love and longing. Unless one has learnt to love God, one cannot realizes Him. There is another kind of bhakti, known as vaidhi-bhakti, according to which one must repeat the name of God a fixed number of times, fast, make pilgrimages, worship God with prescribed offerings, make so many sacrifices, and so forth and do on. By continuing such practices a long time one gradually acquires raga-bhakti. God cannot be realized until one has raga-bhakti. One must love God. In order to realize God one must be completely free from worldliness and direct all one's mind to Him.
-Sri Ramakrishna
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