In Bhakti there is not only singing of Kirtans, bhajans and other act of devotion, as most people think it to be. Bhakti is essentially an attitude by which a person begins to understand the limitations of the movement of the intellect. When the intellect begins to understand how limited its reach is, then it cuts itself out. It becomes absolutely silent. When fancy can no more unfurl its wings, when it settles down, then what remains is the experience of the Supreme Self. That means, the little "I" has to go. Someone once said that the shortest cut is to cut the ego into two! That is easier said than done!
It has explained how anything that you know, in the ordinary sense, is merely knowledge that is stored in the memory, and therefore, not a thing which is in the present. You recall it, then you say, " I have the knowledge of it." But the Supreme Being, if one has to know at all, is always present now, at this moment! It is nothing that can be stored in the memory. Therefore, it cannot be known in the usual mode, like when we say, "I know something, I have understood something." This understanding is a permanent affair. Once understood, always understood!
Source: Kenopanishad
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