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spiritual love as preman, anuraga, sneha, pranaya,
and so
112 do not
on, used by the medieval devotional writers,
appear in the text. The only precise word for love
employed, other than bhakti itself, is priti. This occurs
once, in an interesting context, at 10.10: "To them who are
constantly disciplined and worship Me with love, I give the
discipline of the intelligence by which they come to Me."
Note here the association of love with discipline (yoga),
and intellection (buddhi) 113 The bhakti of the G墨t膩 is
clearly not the ecstatic and outwardly emotional love of the
later Vai峁ａ箛ava sects. Rather, it is a devotion associated
with yogic concentration and knowledge.
Indeed, as Zaehner
has pointed out, the Gita's teaching on bhakti presupposes
that the aspirant is yukta, i.e., already disciplined in
114 yoga.
"With his mind tranquil," says K峁涐梗峁嘺, "free from
fear, established in his vow of celibacy, his mind
controlled and focused on Me, let him sit disciplined
(yukta), intent on Me."115 This is the contemplative bhakti
which we have indicated is distinguishable from later
ecstatic forms of devotion. Hardy identifies it as a type
common to the BG, the Vi峁�nu Pur膩峁嘺, and the Vedantic theism
of R膩m膩nuja. 116 It is, to use the terminology of the Bengal
Vai峁ａ箛ava school somewhat anachronistically, the "quiescent
devotion" (santabhakti) of the meditative and self-
controlled yogin or j帽膩nin. 117