Question: How to open my heart?
Answer: By following these teachings. To follow these teachings, you begin to open your heart. They purify the heart, they cleanse the heart, the heart opens. That hard shell that we hide inside of is chipped away and gradually the true love of our heart begins to manifest.
So you follow this process and the heart opens like a flower opens in spring. Why does the flower open? Because of the conditions of the spring; it’s designed to open. But only under certain conditions. So these conditions that we meet in bhakti yoga open our heart.