DEVOTION
Devotion isn’t a separate practice.
It’s not just chanting or singing — it’s how you do everything.
Krishna tells us in the Bhagavad Gītā that even the simplest offering — a leaf, a flower, a little water — is enough when it’s given with an open heart.
So your āsana practice can be devotion. Your strength training can be devotion. Cooking, working, caring for others — all of it.It’s how you approach it. Showing up to do the work as an offering to the sacred, and letting go of the results.
There are also practices that help us remember.
Chanting. Repeating a mantra. Singing together.
Kīrtan is one of those.There’s something powerful in sitting together and chanting the names of God — simple, rhythmic, and shared.
Krishna Das often shares stories of Maharaji having the Hanumān Chālīsā sung again and again — constant, repetitive, full of love.
It’s not something we need to understand in an academic sense, but it’s something that’s hard to deny once we’ve felt the power of it.
