784 - Swami Vivekananda
========================================================================================== Saturday 17, Aug 2024, 05:30. Volume 3 San Francisco 1900 Lectures and Discourses Bhakti-Yoga Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion CHAPTER I THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION Swami Vivekananda ======================================================================================= 1.THE PREPARATORY RENUNCIATION: We have now finished the consideration of what may be called the preparatory Bhakti, and are entering on the study of the ParΓ’-Bhakti or supreme devotion. We have to speak of a preparation to the practice of this Para-Bhakti. All such preparations are intended only for the purification of the soul. The repetition of names, the rituals, the forms, and the symbols, all these various things are for the purification of the soul. The greatest purifier among all such things, a purifier without which no one can enter the regions of this higher devotion (Para-Bhakti), is renunciation. This frightens many; y