Month: March 2024

People, often in the name of worship or Devotion, indulge in acts of bartering, like getting desires fulfilled in return for acts of worship or chanting of hymns. Sometimes it is like an act of bribery offering sweets and other offerings in exchange for meeting one’s needs. Some bribery acts are offering money, gold etc., to the deity expecting worldly favours from the deity in return.

As you find in the world and practiced by most people, Devotion essentially involves ritualistic practices for self-appeasement. Something like visiting temples, shrines or mosques, worshipping Gods and Goddesses, offering prayers/namaz, formal worship with lit wicks soaked in clarified butter, chanting hymns, donating money, and going on pilgrimage, with the aspiration to attain peace, health and wealth.