Guiding Light By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What Does Devotion Bring You?

Devotion brings you immense happiness, deep love and Siddhis.

Siddhi means what you think happens and what you want happens, you bless somebody and it happens; all this happen through that state of your being.

In the yoga sutras Rishi Patanlaji said, ‘Devotion towards the Divine brings perfection of Samadhi. It makes your meditation so serene, and takes you to the perfected state.”

So just pray that this stay with you forever. Let nothing else spoil it. Devotion is like a diamond; don’t trade it for mud. It is the small things, little desires where we lose devotion, like not getting what we want, say a job or relationship. You lose your job and your devotion suffers. If somebody blames you then your devotion is gone. If your work does not happen then your devotion is gone.

So we are losing our devotion over nothing. See, if you are a medical professional, you give medicine to people, and most of the time it works but sometimes it does not work. Similarly in your life many things happen and some things don’t happen, but at least hold onto the devotion.