~~OM~~

Devotion is to remember God always.

~~Henny

Devoting heart and soul, all actions, thoughts to God and Guru.

~~Karen

Devotion is our response to the ever new experience of bliss that comes from living in God-consciousness. Devotion becomes our adoration of God!

~~Micheal Koontz

Devotion is giving without expectation of the results or anything in return. It is giving more than we take. It is the precious jewel that I am striving for in all that I do, say or think.

~~Surya

Devotion is selfless surrender. The highest respect transmitted through every action.

~~Kalia

Devotion is the frustration and the painful constriction in the heart that you cannot see Her. You just want Her to sit next to you and hold your hand.

~~Srini

Devotion is Vinamrita, the state of continuous bowing.

~~Sadhvi

Devotion is the urge to only sing your praises - no desires for anything else.

~~Sadumaa

Devotion is that expression of consciousness when all attention is upon the beloved.

~~Morningsong

Devotion is a caring or contemplation so strong that the conflict between "me" and "the world" dissolves. Devotion includes simple things, like showing up. Devotion is seeing where I am not devoted and fixing it, without that child deprecation.

~~Steve Conner

Devotion is a corridor down which to travel. It takes us into the heart of all beings. Devotion gets things done most efficaciously. Devotion resolves. Devotion is a precious jewel which each of us is to find within ourselves. If we do that, we also find it within all other selves. When that happens our whole universe become a very strong treasure.

~~Rudran

Devotion is total surrender. Giving your all to "Paramatman Brahma". Anything you do, think, plan, suffer etc., you give to God. You stay in your body (deha) as a witness, seeing things happening in this world (Jagat or Samsara), whether you like it or not. You are not a doer, it is God who is doing it all. Devotion is total, cannot be fragmented, separated or played about with!

~~Asis Bagchi

Devotion is something that is very hard to describe. It is a welling up inside our heart; a bursting forth, the urge to merge. It is an intense burning and longing to dissolve into the object of our devotion. Subject and object finally merge and become one; actually, they always were one, but now it is realized; the soul is re-awakened. Pure Devotion requires one hundred percent attention to the ideal. We, as little rivers are carried back to the Ocean of God's Bliss, by our intensely pure devotion.

~~Muktimaa

Devotion always implies that there is a dual mind. It just means continued attention to the other. The more obsessive the attention gets the easier it is to ignore the body. Whenever we talk of devotion the goal is the most important criteria and to have clear and worthwhile goal we need Knowledge or Jnana. If we lack it we should seek a Guru or Teacher who will help us to formulate a goal that is worthwhile. So the best kind of devotion is a devotion or obsession towards finding out the best goal there is and surrendering everything else towards achieving it.

~~Nandu

Devotion is, as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says, obsession, according to my experience. Obsession about a beloved, a country, or perhaps a form of God. Or a concept such as our origin or what happens after death. A devotee experiences all the characteristics of life in duality such as fear and insecurity (will my beloved reject me?), possesiveness (I want my beloved to be my own), anger (at the beloved for rejection), selfishness (caring about oneself and the beloved to the exclusion of worldly affairs), etc. Since these are directed only towards the beloved, a devotee may be indifferent to bodily comforts, money, others opinions, or even death, leading an observer to think that the devotee has transcended all these worldly emotions and needs. But devotion gives an incredible high and ability to withstand all hurdles except the ones where the beloved is concerned, and it is addictive.

~~JS