These miracle-working icons brought devotees into closer proximity with the deity, and artistic embellishments were added to enhance that relationship and the karmic bond between statue and worshipper.
In his annotated translation of the Bhagavad Gita, readers could learn how to be pleasing to Lord Krishna by eschewing meat and spicy food (which could "cause misery by producing mucus in the stomach"), by working hard, by chanting his name — small, tangible steps that could bring a devotee close to the divine.
An explosive drumbeat brings the devotees of the Hindu goddess Kali, the ferocious divine mother, to their feet.
During the festival many devotees bring clay dishes of henna to Qalandar's tomb, as to a Hindu bride on her wedding-night, and spread it on themselves, invoking the name of a Hindu water-god.Amid syncretism, heresy thrives.
While the recent weather may have disrupted travel plans and caused chaos in much of Scotland, the snow has brought benefits to devotees of skiing.
Houses are cleaned as devotees prepare to bring the Lord Ganesh into their homes and install the deity.
At Lazard, a firm full of professed deal-making devotees, managers are expected to bring in business as well as perform administrative duties.
For devotees of James, the stories bring home that, as Cynthia Ozick once wrote, he "had not always been the elderly bald-headed Henry James! -- that he too had once been 22 years old".
Poets Cornerss For devotees of poetry, tomorrow and Saturday bring events of more than passing interest.
There's nothing even remotely revolutionary included here, but it does continue to provide the finest fan-service known to Hyrule and is sure to bring a smile to the face of Zelda devotees.
