Love And Love: The Importance Of Devotions

What is it that motivates you to look forward to each day as you wake up? What is it that gives you energy to stay up late and get up early? What are you creating that is so in tune with what stirs your heart and soul that you can hardly wait to do it? It is your passionate attachment to what you are doing that fire you up. It may be your work, your family, your career, your hobby, your community service, and it is the devotion with which you pursue what you love that drives you to achieve it. For today, no matter what the rational mind says, spare your time for the places, events, ideas, people and activities that make your heart shout loud: "Yes!!!" Spend time deciding how to bring more of those things into your life. The important part

It means also in certain religion, a complete surrender to the deity as a savior of the devotee from the mires of a mundane existence. The word devotion, mostly in a religious sense, is also associated with salvation. In certain religion it means seeking god’s benevolence for the deliverance of the devotees from the cycle of birth to death. Devotion is a common element in most religious cultures, in Christianity, in Hinduism, in Islam and others. Christianity adds an additional dimension to the concept of devotion as essential for the liberation of the soul which is tainted by desire. Without God’s grace it is not possible to liberate one from the desires which is a prerequisite for seeking salvation. In devotional mysticism which is common in religions but particularly strong in some religions, god is conceived as someone with whom one is in deep love, and one can unite with the beloved only through complete surrender to the deity, an unquestioning surrender. In the Sufi tradition the mystique element is even stronger. The devotee assumes that initially he thought that it was only he who sought union with God, but he then realized that god was equally interested in the union with His devotee. He also, in turn, sought His devotee with equal passion. Such mystique elements are strong in other sects of the Hindus and the Vaishnavites in India as