Sutra 26

The Narada Bhakti Sutra 26 

फलरुपत्वात्॥ २६॥

"Because it (Devotion) is the fruits of all yogas."

All paths described are the means that will take the seekers to the end, the final goal of spiritual endeavour. But in Devotion there is very little difference between the means and the end, between the Way and the Goal. It is the Way that is the Goal also! Like love alone is love’s own end. It is well known to all that love is its own fulfillment Bhakti is both the sādhanā, the means and the sādhya, the end. 

As long as residual vāsanās are lingering in the devotee’s personality, Devotion is a path, sādhanā. But, when as a result of his love for the Lord, his vasanas disappear totally, the stage comes when his Supreme Love itself becomes the Lord of Love Supreme. 

The Sutra thus justifies the assertion in the previous Sutra that the path of Devotion is nobler than all other disciplines for spiritual self unfoldment (karma, gyan, dhyan)