Making Your Devotion Powerful

      The key element for transmission  of energy (or Shakti) is silence. The devotee needs to access deep silence within their own meditation practice and carry their silence within themselves to access their own devotional power. Also, the transmission of Bhakti takes place within silence. In music it is the silence that reverberates between the sounds. In seva or selfless service it is in the welling up of the blissful feelings and the gratitude in the eyes of those who have received the seva. In dance it is the still places within the motion. In visual art it is the formless within the form. In theater it is the space between the words.

        It is the sacred works of art that endure and inspire and represent the best of what humans are capable of. In the creation and sharing of sacred art, there is a transmission of Divine energy. In this way, the devotees have imparted their most divine feelings to others and they have inspired the same devotion in others that they have cultivated in themselves. Stored within their art is the power of their devotion left for future generations.

  

      The skilled Bhakta (devotee) stirs and arouses their feelings in the activity of their devotion. Then in the stillness after the activity, they launch their devotion into the hearts of others. Whenever you can catch the deep silence within your own consciousness; in your own meditation, at the end of a song or in a moment of quietness in conversation - it is an ideal opportunity to send an impulse of devotion from your heart to another’s heart. 

[excerpted from Shiva Sai Mandir's Center for Yogic Studies Fall Vedic Studies class]

The tender words we said to one another

are stored in the secret heart of heaven,

One day like rain, they will fall and spread 

and our mystery will grow green over the world.

- Rumi