The Power of Devotion

SYNOPSIS: The article tries to visualise the great power of devotion. The article calls for unfailing devotion towards ALMIGHTY at all times and in all circumstances.

An infant not even in full clothing, thirsty & hungry in hot summer afternoon is often made a symbol of misery and you must have seen such infant in mother’s lap begging on traffic signals in poor countries.

That infant is on mother’s feed and is a newborn, therefore the infant had done nothing wrong in the present birth because the infant had yet not uttered a word nor had laid a foot on the ground.

Just ponder then as to what is the reason behind such misery. The reason could be either in the previous births it would have done lot of evil things or it was not able to associate itself with the ALMIGHTY through devotion. Because if it would have had devotion for GOD, by sheer virtue of the devotional power it would have burnt all sins accumulated till such time. GOD’s shower of a split-second kindness has a much vaster potency to burn sins and evils than anyone’s capability to accumulate sins & evils in many births.

The first power of devotion is that it burns sins & evils of many births. The second power of devotion (which is even more important than the first) is that it restrains us from doing evils & sins in the instant life. Because real devotion cleanse our mind & soul to such a extend that we are able to acknowledge our inner voice which restrain us from doing wrong. With devotion we are able to distinctively & clearly hear our inner voice. If we abide by our inner voice it becomes more strong & audible. If we do the opposite & are not devotional, our inner voice subsides and becomes inaudible.

What is this inner voice ? This is our true voice, the voice of ALMIGHTY within us who guides us for doing good deeds and restrains us from doing evil & bad deeds.

It is the devotional power which is able to generate directions from within, which is not the case if you are not devotional. The devotional power restricts us from indulging in evil & sinful activities in that birth and it is the same devotional power which burns our past accumulated evils & sins of many births.

When our accumulated sins & evils are washed away, we get a human birth in a good, noble family. Being born in such a family and being able to understand the reason behind it, we must continue on the devotional path in that birth. Because it was the devotion which was instrumental in earning GOD’s kindness which led to the burning of our sins, by virtue of which we got the human body and birth in noble family. Therefore if we are able to keep our devotion predominant & prevailing in the new birth, it saves us from indulging in sinful activities. It makes our inner voice cogent and saves us from doing evil deeds. Only devotion can lead us to the greatest height in human life and can even leads us to an audience with ALMIGHTY by which we are freed from the miseries of birth & rebirths forever. In fact this is the very purpose of human life.

Therefore if we are born with adversities (in a poor & humble family) we must practice devotion for undoing our miseries, to cleanse us from sins and for generation of audible inner voice which will restrain us from indulging in new evils during adversities. On the contrary,if we are born without adversities (in a affluent & noble family) then too, we must practice devotion as a thanksgiving to the ALMIGHTY and for achieving the real pinnacle of human life (the real pinnacle of human life is not accumulation of worldly wealth and enjoying worldly luxuries and show-off but the real pinnacle is practicing high moral principles and doing noble deeds in the human life). Also, if we are born without adversities, we must practice devotion to make our inner voice cogent so that our arrogance of wealth & power do not force us into doing wrongful evils.

If we are born with adversities, we should consider it the result of our lack of devotion in previous births. In other words, we were not able to connect with the kindness of ALMIGHTY. Therefore it becomes utterly important to connect with GOD through devotion so that raise our present birth & our afterlife.

If we are born without adversities, we should consider it the result of our devotion towards GOD in our past lives and the present favorable times is nothing but the reward for being able to connect ourself with the ALMIGHTY in past lives. Therefore we should continue to keep ourself connected with ALMIGHTY by practicing devotion in the present life too.

In both situations, to walk on the devotional path is the only & most viable medium to make our human life successful & wonderful.