This is Yoga of Devotion.    It is the most recommended type of yoga for the modern times, especially for people who are very emotional.   The devotee is dedicated to his Deity of worship.    The devotee carries out the adoration of the Lord in form of Hymns, devotional songs, prayers and mantra recital.    Devotion is of two kinds, without motive, and with purpose of fulfillment of certain desires.   The former is superior to the later.    The later type is again of three types, tamasic, rajsic and sattavic.   These are basically mental make up and accordingly a devotee performs the Bhakti.   The Rajsic and Tamasic forms of Bhakti are performed for fulfillment of some petty mundane desire like acquiring riches or power etc. The Sattvic Bhakti culminates in a term called para-bhakti where in one realizes God and his omnipresence.

Bhakti performed without desire takes a person to the highest realization.   The devotee merges himself with the chosen deity.   He sees the form of the deity in each and every being and gains the knowledge of the reality.   Bhakti too culminates in knowledge of the Absolute.