Bhakti is also a yoga, a process of eliminating the mind or transforming the mind into an instrument for realising God. Bhakti, however, has been watered down into a routine ritual—like turning the beads of a rosary, squatting a specified number of hours before an image, offering of incense, waving of lights, ringing of bells, dipping in holy waters, or climbing hills to reach shrines. These are acts that quieten some urges and quicken others, which may or may not be congenial. Bhakti is not a penitential uniform that can be put on or off, as occasion demands. The constables on duty here wear uniforms, complete with ribbons and medals; but, when they reach home after their hours of duty, they take it off and wear other dresses. Devotion cannot come upon you during stated hours and fall off when you relapse into normalcy. It is a continuous and constant condition of the mind, a confirmed attitude, a way chosen and adhered to with avid attention. Today, man dabbles in yoga (devotional practices) in the morning hours, revels in bhoga (festivity and luxury, catering to the senses) during the day, and tosses about in roga (disease) during the night! Bhakti is not an action to be ‘performed’ during certain periods every day and superseded by other fashionable attractions.