# Bhakti-yoga The progressive yogi moves from *sankhya* towards *bhakti*. Kapiladeva thus described the science of *bhakti-yoga*. He detailed how devotional service can be practised in three modes of material nature. In ignorance (*tamas*) it is executed with envy, pride, violence and anger, in passion (*rajas*) it is executed with motives for material enjoyment, fame and opulence, and in goodness (*sattva*) it is executed out of duty, with a spirit of detachment and for self-purification. When one in situated in pure devotional service, the mind is spontaneously attracted to hearing about the Lord, the desire for any kind of liberation disappears and one transcends the modes and is fixed in spiritual purity (*vasudeva state*). Kapiladeva also described the vision of an advanced devotee, who sees the Lord within every living being (*jiva*), and thus embodies a friendly spirit toward all, carefully avoiding any offences. While cultivating such vision, the devotee still exercises discrimination based on gradations of *jivas* in order to relate to them appropriately. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://bhagavata.keshavaswami.com/canto-03/s.a.v.e.s/s-sankya-yoga-25-33/bhakti-yoga.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.