The word yoga in Sanskrit means “to join.” “Literally, according to the Sanskrit, yoga means to unite. Most of us think of it as a union of our nose to our knees or our fingers to our toes.

Devotion, bhakti, is acclaimed to be the most efficient means to unite the ‘jiva’ with the Supreme. It is called ‘Bhakti yoga’, in which the word yoga means a tool, an effective strategy, to achieve ...