Sentence examples for devotion to the God from inspiring English sources
This devotional movement, although reminiscent in some ways of the Veerashaiva movement of the 12th century (which produced Vachana poetry and taught devotion to the god Shiva), was in contrast intimately devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu as the supreme God.
Similar poets, in the tradition of devotion to the god Vishnu, also belonged to this early period.
Between the 5th and 10th centuries ce it was the provincial capital of many Hindu dynasties and a centre of devotion to the god Shiva.
After a long pilgrimage, Ramanuja settled in Shrirangam, where he organized temple worship and founded centres to disseminate his doctrine of devotion to the god Vishnu and his consort Shri (Lakshmi).
He initiated his first disciple in 1493 at Mathura, which became the centre of his activities, though he undertook several pilgrimages throughout India, propagating his doctrine of bhakti (devotion) to the god Krishna.
The Big Book devotes one chapter to "the wives of men who drink too much" and another to "agnostics," whose "biased and unreasonable" devotion to the "God of Reason" prevented them from seeing that God was "as much a fact as we were".
Wiccans meet in circle, usually 3 to 13 in number, for training, devotion to the gods and goddesses and celebration.
Their own devotion to the gods of permutation led them to invite the Irish to pummel them.
It is easy to understand the devotion to the volatile god when you are walking next to rivers that continue to carve deep canyons out of mountains rising to the sky.
Unlike in much of India, where royal families have used their kingdoms' assets to build luxuriant palaces, here the royal family has had a reputation for living modestly and for its devotion to the Hindu god Vishnu, known here as Padmanabhaswamy.
Madhvacharya taught complete devotion to the Hindu god Vishnu, emphasising Jnanamarga or the "path of knowledge", and insisted that the path of devotion "can help a soul to attain elevation" (Athmonathi).
