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How to follow the path of Devotion for Success in Life

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Have you ever thought who life we are living?

We always talk about great kings, administrators and businessmen.

But, when we look at our own lives, we are in reality living the life of great saints. Our daily life is hugely influenced by them.

If one looks at Indian society, people prefer to identify themselves by spiritual traditions developed by saints. People see themselves as Madhvas, Lingayats, Sri Vaishnavas, Sikhs, Ramanandis, Varkaris and others. Each state in the country has its own spiritual tradition and culture, which is directly influenced by one or more saints of the region.

While thousands of great kings ruled the country since ancient times, we don’t really identify ourselves with them. We don’t even remember most of them. While there are highly respected kings like Janaka and Bali, again they are remembered for their spiritual achievements.

Even an Asura like Ravana is highly revered because he was a great devotee of Shiva. We still recite the great ‘Shiva Tandava Stotram’ composed by him.

However, is the path of devotion still relevant the modern society? If so, how? Let us try to understand.

The psychology of devotion

Bhakti or devotion is one of the four paths of spirituality. The others being Karma, Jnana and Raja or Kriya Yoga.

Bhakti Yoga or the path of devotion is simply an act of devoting yourself to God. What is the benefit of it?

Human beings are born with a great potential within. But, due to life’s circumstances, they develop limiting beliefs about themselves. They fail at maintaining good health, relationships and fail financially too. As they grow older, it becomes more difficult to erase such limiting beliefs from their mind.

So, instead of striving to replace self-doubt with positive beliefs, they are given the path of devotion. They are told to select a deity and build a deeper connection with it. And let the deity work on their behalf.

Once they start on this path, devotees begin to believe that their chosen deity will help them solve problems, and show them ways to create wealth and healthy relationships. Devotees drop all kinds of negative thoughts, resentment, jealousy and live a happy God-centred life. It makes them more compassionate towards fellow living beings.

If you can learn the art of devotion and know how to connect with your deity, you can easily access your inner potential and use it to transform your life.

The other three Yoga methods are strenuous. The Karma Yoga is when a person does his work without any desire for its fruits. Not easy. It takes years to develop such a mindset. The Jnana Yoga is a hard mental exercise. And the Kriya yoga too demands intense physical action. All these three demand a lot of time, sometimes many years to reach the goal. They don’t really go well with your daily life.

But, you can practice Bhakti yoga as part of your life. You can practice it no matter who you are, and wherever you are. It is a simple spiritual practice to connect with God. Once you build this connection, God will start giving answers to your life’s questions and guide you all through.

It does not require any mantras, rituals or even the help of a priest. This nature of Bhakti yoga had a great influence on Shrimanta Sankar Deva during his 12-year long pilgrimage.

How Shankara Deva used devotion to rebuild Assamese culture

A neo Bhakti movement emerged in southern India during the 5th century and brought a lasting change in Indian spiritual life. It created many great saints, who in turn influenced kings and common people to transform Indian society forever. Srimanta Sankaradeva was one such great saint who transformed Assam.

When Srimanta Sankaradeva was born in the 15th century, the Bhakti movement was already becoming popular in north India. Started by the Tamil Alvars in the 5th century, neo-Vaishnavism got propagated by the great acharyas such as Ramanuja. Then it spread across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. In the early 15th century, Saint Ramananda passed this on to north India.

Sankaradeva, who was from a Shiromani Bhuyan family, was a Shakta by family tradition. But, during his 12-year long pilgrimage at the age of 32, he was profoundly influenced by the neo Vaishnavite tradition. This tradition is based on the Bhagavad Gita and considers Lord Vishnu as the supreme being. Vaishnavism made the spiritual practices so simple that a layman could practice it. It said that there was no need of Mantras or heavy spiritual practices or even the need for a priest to mediate. Anyone can approach God just by surrendering to him and start living a God-centred life.

After returning to Assam, Srimanta Sankaradeva began to preach his new found religion Ekasarana Nama Dharma. In contrast to the earlier Shakta spiritual path, Ekasarana Nama Dharma taught a simple method of devotion for the common people. Instead of huge temples and long spiritual rituals, Srimanta Sankaradeva founded monasteries called Satras, centres for practising devotion. The miniature versions of these monasteries, called namghors, were built in villages to conduct kirtans in praise of the lord.

This way, Srimanta Sankaradeva simplified spiritual path for common man.

How to use devotion in your life

Srimanta Sankaradeva used two elements to not just transform his own life, but also the life of whole Assam. The same elements you too can use to transform your life. They are 1. Master and 2. Mission.

Srimanta Sankaradeva considered Lord Krishna as his master. And his mission was to help people directly connect with the God without long rituals or priests. We all have missions in life, but with a master, it is easy to accomplish them. The master is the deity that you choose to be devoted to. Whether you are a businessman or an artist or a teacher, if you can connect well with your deity, you can reach great heights.

Once you connect with the creator, your mind easily connects with creation. As a devotee, you will easily connect yourself with nature, all living and non-living beings in it. You will begin to revere all natural phenomena – dawn and dusk, night and stars. With this kind of connection, you tend to be protective toward nature and all life. You will become more loving and compassionate. You need not struggle to acquire these qualities. With devotion, they become a natural part of you.

So, if you can understand the process of devotion and find your deity, your life will be put in a forward motion, from success to success.

(This post was published in Assamese magazine Uruli)

How the Magic of Devotion transformed my life

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The Mantra

It was summer and a drama company had camped at our village. I was about eight years old and I used to find a chance somehow to sneak into the theatre and watch most of the shows.

As the days passed, I became acquainted with a few people associated with the drama company and their children. One day, one of the drama artists visited our house and asked if I could play the role of a boy who was a devotee of Lord Narayana. The boy who usually played the role was not available that day.

It was a minor role, where the boy, an ardent devotee, always recited a mantra. The lady of the drama company taught the mantra to me. It went like this:

Tvameva Mata cha Pita Tvameva,

Tvameva Bandhu cha Sakha Tvameva,

Tvameva Vidya Dravinam Tvameva,

Tvameva Sarvam Mama Deva Deva.

Meaning: You are my mother and my father. You are my true relative and friend. You are my knowledge and you are my wealth. You are my everything, oh my lord.

This one mantra transformed my life.

Two years later, I joined a residential school hundred kilometres from our home. There, I was away from parents, alone and sad. That is when this Mantra came to my rescue. There, I used to sit alone in a secluded place, look at the sky and recite this mantra.

In our village, we have the temple of a Goddess on top of a hill. This has been our family deity for generations. When I got selected to the residential school, my mother told me that she was only my biological mother, but my true mother was the Goddess in the temple. While my parents might not always be with me, this goddess will always be with me and protect me, my mother had said.

I believed her words completely. Whenever I felt lonely in the school, I used to sit somewhere alone and recite this mantra – Oh my Goddess, you are my father and my mother, my friend and teacher, you are my knowledge and wealth, and you are everything to me.

Every time I recited this mantra, everything began to change for me. I started to feel the sky pouring into me and fill me with an immense joy. Then I started to feel that everything around me – the trees, the people around, the birds and animals, the rocks and clouds – was part of my being.

A few months passed and this experience continued to go deeper. Soon, I started to recognise many miracles happening around me. Things that I just imagined or thought about began to manifest. Things were happening as if I myself had created them.

But, I did not much worry about all those thought manifestations. I was so joyful that nothing else mattered to me.

The experiment

Filled with an uncontrollable joy, I wanted to know the source of this experience. Then I began to experiment with the other deities. I wanted to know the secret behind this process of worship, the deities and the experiences. I wanted to understand the science behind devotion.

I had two reasons to conduct such experiments:

  1. There is immense fear and suffering around the God-concept in the world. People have strange ideas about God and a lot of them suffering unnecessarily. I wanted to burst it to find the right path.
  2. I wanted to know the concept of divinity and share its benefits with the world.

From then onwards, I started to conduct experiments. For months and years, I used to choose a deity, devote myself to that deity and experience the joy of it.

For example, I take Lord Krishna as my deity and I start living with him. I consider him as my best friend, guide and support, and always feel that he was living with me. He comes with me to my school, to the dining hall and also sleeps next to me. Then I find time to sit at a secluded place and talk to him.

This is how the experiment goes. You start living with your deity as if you both are in a relationship. Soon, you begin to live as if you have everything in life. When you have someone like Krishna as your friend, you don’t need anyone else.

It may look imaginary or fantasy for many. But, as you go through this book, you will know the psychological secrets of the devotion and how your this imagination can make a real impact on your life.

With the assumption that you are living with a higher being, your vibrations are naturally high and pure. The thought that you are always protected by somebody will keep you relaxed and confident. Fearful or doubtful thoughts never bother you. You don’t even suffer from thoughts of resentment or jealousy.

As I continued to experiment with more deities, one day it happened: I went beyond the deities and started to connect with the nameless and formless entity of the Almighty. That’s when you really flower.

Flowering is when you and your God has become one. It is the moment when you as a drop become one with the ocean. And you have become the ocean. Then you are so abundant that all desires are dropped, the entire existence has entered you.

The revelation

The tree of life

The biggest revelation in life is that you are the almighty yourself. There is one almighty and that is you. And everything around you, including all the people and all living beings, is just a response to you. The whole existence is one, and for you, it operates from within you.

In this world, we always divide things as something that is me and the rest that is not me. But in reality, there is nothing called THAT IS NOT ME. That very consideration is a fallacy because your soul is so pervaded that it embodies everything from within. So, everything in the existence is already part of you.

But, you don’t need to carry the cosmos in your mind. Your mind is very small and trying to carry the cosmos is a burden. Just understand that within you, you are already in union with every other being and everything in existence.

To make it more understandable, let me give you an analogy of a tree. This explains how you are one with the almighty and the world. This understanding will benefit you in many ways psychologically.

Consider an apple tree. This tree has a hundred apples.

Now, each apple is directly attached to the tree. These apples are connected with each other also, but not directly. They are connected to each other through the tree.

Now, consider this tree as the almighty, and we the living beings are the apples. Remember, we are directly connected to the almighty and not to other people.

When one of the apples wants more nutrients to grow, it does not look at its bigger neighbours and crib. It just asks the tree for what it wants. And the tree has abundant resources to provide for all of its fruits.

Similarly, as you are always in oneness with the God, you need not look at other people and feel jealous. You are in union with the almighty and it knows what exactly you want. You don’t even need to ask for things. Fruits do not ask. They just rest in peace, and they are continuously provided with everything they need. Similarly, there are many things you yourself may not know you might need it, but the God knows and provides you with it.

That is why you first need to turn yourself to your almighty. Because we live in a society and are heavily influenced by it – all our dreams, aspirations and even powers are being hindered by the society. But, when you unite with your almighty, you will know miracles start happening in your life.

So, my revelation is how and how deeply I am in union with the Almighty. In this book, I am sharing with you the way to bond with the God and transform your life.

Here, you will learn about the path of devotion or Bhakti, the simplest and most effective path of Yoga. It is one step mukti-yoga, the salvation science. It is not a long process; the moment you jump into it, you are already transformed.

The sharing

My exploration did not stop there. I continued to read hundreds of stories of ancient and modern devotees, sacred scriptures, methods of meditation and modern psychology to understand the secret behind devotion.

Now, I am presenting here The Magic of Devotion to you. Here, you will read about the meaning and science behind devotion, how to select your deity, practice devotion, and live an abundant life. You will also get to read many miraculous stories of devotees who created unbelievable things in their life.

As you go through, you will learn many secrets about the complete process. If you understand them well, you will not need any other yoga or spiritual practice. Devotion is enough for your life. It will surely take you to great heights.

This part is taken from the online course The Magic of Devotion.

Hate Meditation? Try these 5 alternatives (5th one surprising)

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I don’t like sitting for meditation.

It is struggling to sit still, changing breathing pattern or reciting some mantra.

I used to wonder how meditation is connected with my daily life. It didn’t feel like being a part of my necessary routines.

Until I understood that life itself is meditation.

Whatever you do, do it with full care and attention, you will start being meditative. The deeper your focus is, the more joyful you become. You don’t need yogic exercises for that.

Of course, there are benefits if you practice Raja yoga. It helps you bring harmony between your body and mind. It helps you develop a positive mindset and improve your health.

But the ultimate goal of yoga is to find the cosmic bliss within. Reaching this goal through yogic exercises is arduous.

Also, not everyone can tune oneself to such methods. They are a hard journey for most.

Are tired of different meditations and feel they are not creating any juice of joy in you? Simply, try other methods to bring the same mental effects.

Here are those five methods. The fifth one may be new for you. But, that is the one method you can use for long and get long-term benefits. So, let us begin:

  1. Visualize rivers or the sky:

What do you feel when you see an ant?

Imagine a rabbit in its place. What do you feel now? Replace it with a bear. How does it feel? Then replace it with an elephant.

Does that feel some kind of expansion happening within you? Don’t you feel that with every expansion, you are getting more relaxed and joyful?

Have you not experienced a feeling of expansion when looking at a high-flowing river? How about an unlimited ocean, a sky-high mountain or an open sky?

The expansion you feel is actually your consciousness expanding.

When it happens, problems in your life begin to appear trivial. And you will feel very powerful and courageous.

Continue to feel the presence of a river or the sky, it becomes a meditational experience.

2. Listen to favourite music

There is something about rhythm that reduces your thought flow.

Listening to music lets you flow into a rhythm, and soon it makes you forget yourself. This is when you go deeper and find the overwhelming emptiness inside.

This becomes an immensely relaxing experience.

So, whenever you are listening to music, don’t focus on any other work. Be with the tune, feel the emotions. With the song getting over, let out a deep sigh of release, as if you came out of a high.

Soon, you will realize the tone of your thought process has changed. Positive thoughts started to enter in you.

Now, you can take up your important works for the day.

3. Walk alone in nature

Walking alone in nature has a similar effect as visualizing rivers or mountains.

Whenever you walk in nature, be sure you are alone. With people, you will soon start a conversation, and forget the nature around. So, be alone.

Walk slowly, looking around. Feel the clouds moving up in the sky, feel the movement of the leaves on the trees. Observe the way the insects and birds living their life.

When you observe, you make them part of your consciousness. It expands you.

Soon, you will know that you are more than the life you are living. You are in nature, you are the nature.

4. Visualize a dreamy life as happening now

We are all daydreamers.

But, most of us do not realize that daydreaming can transform our lives profoundly.

If you practice visualization methodically, you can create actual life experiences.

You can use it to overcome regrets and negative thoughts. It helps you transcend past hangovers.

To practice it properly, sit down or lie down at a calm place. Then start visualizing yourself doing something that you always wanted to do.

The deeper your visualization goes, the deeper it creates impressions in your mind. The more you do it, the more you will begin to enjoy it.

At a certain point, your visualization becomes your meditation.


5. The Magic of Devotion

One of the four major yogic methods, the path of devotion is one of the most ancient spiritual methods. It is the simplest one too.

The path of devotion, or Bhakti Yoga, helps you to connect with God and let the God function for you.

Unlike yogic postures, which need prolonged physical practice, it is a method of love.

In this method, you find your deity, connect yourself to it and begin to develop your life around the deity.

Being in the presence of your deity itself becomes deeply meditative and blissful.

You will have to try it to experience it.

How to foolproof these 8 morning habits with mission and master

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Even a life’s mission cannot fully inspire you into following a daily routine — because of repeated failures, threats, and depressions. If you have a deity at the centre of your mission, supporting and leading you — then your routine becomes invincible.

A proper routine is a sure stairs to success.

But, most of us fail in maintaining a routine for a long time. You start following a routine, but within a week, it falls apart. And then you try some other method, which also fails. And this goes on.

Any method you take up, after a few days it starts becoming forced, tiresome, and dry routine, which you want to get rid off. Right?

There are two reasons why your daily routine is not becoming a natural part of your life.

The first reason is, your life has not turned into a MISSION.

That is, you are not able to connect your daily routine to a larger goal. Your energy is not moving in one direction, one higher goal in life. That is why you fantasize doing many things, but end up doing few.

You cannot reduce your body fat or build six-pack abs just because someone else has done it. What are you going to do with your six-pack abs? Act in the next superhero movie? Run a gym, or build a business around health? How is it going to help your overall life?

Your routine has to become an extension of your own personality. Unless you attach it with your overall goal of life, your routine cannot become a long-lasting one.

The second is, you have not chosen your MASTER yet.

We all want to become rulers. But there is also an innate desire for being ruled. It is easy when you have a master to report to. Right?

With most bosses and masters, you work to fulfill their dreams. But, how about having a master who helps you build your own dream? A master who can help you with your mission?

You can find such a master in two forms – one is a living master or a mentor. Another is a deity —  I will explain it to you about this in a bit.

But, before that, please go through these 8 morning-routines and later you will know how to connect your mission with your master and streamline your life.

Brahma Muhurta — the time to get up

There is a precise time for you to wake up if you want to make the best use of your inner potential. The ancient sages have discovered that the perfect time for you to rise is during Brahma muhurta —  a time precisely 1Hr 36 mins before sunrise.

It is the elixir time when your mind is most serene and calm. This is the time you can recreate yourself and become what you want to be. So, decide that you will not open your social media, emails or news until you complete these tasks.

Here is your ideal routine:

  1. Brahma wakes up

‘Aham Brahmasmi’ (I am the ultimate reality) declares Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. When you wake up from your slumber, you have returned from the deep sleep state where your pure unlimited potential exists. The potential that is untouched by your limiting beliefs about yourself.

So, when you wake up during the Brahma muhurtha, you wake up not as the person you slept the day before, with all that bad experiences and impressions, but as Brahma — the pure unlimited potential.

In your sleep, you have touched your deeper self, which is the almighty — the Brahma or Parabrahma. So, when you wake up, you wake up with an unlimited potential — that is why it is so important.

When the world is still asleep, no vehicle sounds, no humans showing up around, you will still remain the Brahma and do the most important things that build your day and your mission. That is why you get up at Brahma muhurtha — the time when you are the Brahma.

This is not the time for you to visit Facebook or Twitter or news — which again brings you back to the world, and you lose yourself.

This is the time for you to take up your morning routines.

But, when you wake up, don’t hurry towards your predefined routines. First, feel the emptiness that you have touched in your sleep. Be with that experience for some time. And slowly, let yourself come to the world. Take a few long breaths and feel the silence inside.

2. Drink hot cumin water

Drinking hot beverages such as green tea, lemon tea in an empty stomach helps better bowel movements. I would suggest you have a cup of hot cumin water mixed with honey for added benefits.

3. River bath or river mantra

There is a reason why people from ancient times took bath in the flowing waters of rivers. River water is full of cosmic energy, also called as pranic energy or bioplasma. When you take bath in a river, that energy enters into you and refreshes your being.

Even the water you take from a well or a pond does have the same effect. But, all cannot have the luxury of a river or a pond nearby. But, there is a method of energizing the water.

So, before you take bath, recite this mantra to infuse pranic energy of river-water into it:

Gange cha Yamune chaiva Godavari Saraswati |

Narmade Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru ||

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(Meaning: I hereby invoke the holy waters from rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Saraswati, Narmada, Sindhu and Kaveri to be present in this water.)

Considered holy, these rivers flow in various parts of India and are worshipped by people across the nation.

In The Miracle of Water, Masaru Emoto writes, “By holding the intention of peace towards the water, by thinking, speaking and acting with the intention of peace towards the water, water can and will bring peace, to our bodies and to the world.”

You need to understand and recite this mantra to know the effect it will have on the water and also on you. It changes the vibration of your entire being.

Taking a cold water bath brings your mind and body out of the last bit of slumber. Traditionally, several immediate benefits of a cold shower/bath are listed.

Cold water increases your blood circulation, as blood moves faster to keep your organs warm, which in long-term keeps you healthy and younger. Also, it increases your testosterone and fertility and decreases the tendency of depression.

Immediately after the bath, you are suggested to invoke the divine.

4. Pooja — the divine calling

During your deep sleep, which is called as Sushupti, you are one with the all-pervading cosmic energy. When you get up, you are still connected to it. And, this is the time for strengthening that connection by invoking the cosmic divinity.

This can either be done by invoking the cosmic formless presence, or by worshipping your own personal deity.

With personal deity, you are not worshipping some stone or statue. You are treating it as r a presentation of the all-pervading cosmic entity and will develop a human-like relationship with it. As the relationship grows deeper, you will receive greater rewards.

So, immediately after the bath, devotees prepare for a pooja of their deity. (The Magic of Devotion gives you a step-by-step method to learn and practice devotion for success in life.)

During the puja or worship, you invoke the all-pervading cosmic energy, offer flowers and fruits and thank the divinity.

There is a reason behind this offerings and gratitude. When you express your gratitude towards this all-pervading power, you are not only acknowledging the best things you already have in your life, but also letting more of those things flow into your life. Through the attitude of gratitude. And with the offerings, you are connecting deeper.

During worship, a devotee recites a few mantras, which are crucial. Take this mantra for example:

Samudravasane devi parvatastanamandale                                              

Vishnupatni namastubhyam padasparsham kshamaswa me

This mantra calls the earth as mother, praises her and seeks her forgiveness for stepping on her.

And there are similar mantras that express gratitude to the sun, the rivers, sacred herbs and animals, and the ancient great men who contributed immensely to our lives.

Either you can learn mantras, or you can simply remember all those entities and energies that are causing and leading your life. A heartfelt expression of gratitude is equal to any mantra.

Just remember to thank all the people your life has been enriched by. You will know how rich you are.

5. Physical postures for mental balance — Yoga

After getting up, your consciousness slowly returned to your body through drink and shower. Now, it is time to completely return to your body and own it. Yoga and Pranayama will help you do it.

You must know that Yoga is not your physical exercise. It helps you physically but, the primary aim is to bring the stability of your body and mind and make you ready for meditation.

That is why proper focus on breathing is important during yoga. You can give evening time for your gym exercises. Now, as you want to take up several works for the day, you need to work on the stability of your mind.

Think that Yoga and Pranayama are for that. But, you can select specific yogic postures to work on particular parts of the body as well. But the primary goal is to balance your mind.

6. Recite the power word — Japa

You will be surprised to know how the recitation of a word makes you very powerful. Let me explain the science behind it.

While hundreds of thoughts enter your mind every second, only a few select thoughts are allowed and entertained by it. The mind lets only those thoughts that match your current mindset. If you are feeling down or being overpowered by your past, it is simply because you are tuned to such thoughts. And your mind is allowing them because they are familiar.

Remember that even a single negative thought can disturb you profoundly.

But, there is a method to seal your mind properly so that these thoughts do not sneak into your mind — that is the science behind the method of japa.

Japa or recitation of a particular mantra or a phrase or even a word has been practised since ancient times.

It has two benefits:

  1. After a prolonged and quality recitation of japa, your mind will be able to seal negative thoughts.
  2. This repetition of a particular sound will create energy that you can use to create the life you want.

Recitation of a Japa for 10 minutes further stabilizes your mind and makes it fit for meditation.

7. Gear up your goals — Meditation

When you get up in the morning, you are returning from your Sushupti, the bliss state. But, the only difference is that you are not aware of it. When you become aware of it, you will become aware of your true inner being, which is called enlightenment.

Meditation is a method to get back into sushupti with awareness. When you sit for meditation, your goal is to observe how you go deeper into silence. But, this cannot be practised during your daily morning routine. This can only be practised if you can dedicate yourself to it fully for months and years. Otherwise, daily meditation has a different purpose.

Another goal of meditation is to focus your mind to create the life you want, about which we discuss now.

If you are on a mission, you meditate to focus your mind on the end result of it — the having of your desired object or accomplishing your goal.

During the meditation, you hold in your mind your desired objective as accomplished and feel the satisfaction. Once you experience the tears of fulfilment, you will feel that your meditation is complete. At the end, express your gratitude towards the cosmic power or your deity for making this possible.

8. Put on the mask

This is important.

When you get up from your meditation and are ready to take on the day, never forget to do this.

Have you observed how billionaire businessman Bruce Wayne turns into Batman by wearing the mask? How his body language and voice changes? During this transformation, he not just wears a new attire, but wears a new identity – a new mission.

When you complete the first 7 morning routines, you still are a potential energy, a possibility. With this 8th step, you are bringing the immense potential within into a form, a new identity.

That is why uniforms are important — they are in a way masks that you enter into. When you wear the school uniform, you admit and believe that you are a student, and others also believe that.

Similarly, if you are a police officer, a lawyer or any uniformed professional, as long as you are wearing the uniform, you and others see you with that identity. (Also, observe how your thought streams, body language, and behaviours change with the uniform.)

So, when you get up from your meditation and are ready to get out, do this — wear the mask that you yourself and the world want to see you with.

If you want to be a hugely popular writer, just wear that mask. If you want to be a film star, wear that mask first, and go out. Whatever is your ideal — get that mask ready and enter into it.

With this new self-image, all the qualities of your new identity will flower in you. Without you entering into that mask, you will not find inner impulse or motivation to do the works that you want to do.

The mask will make you ready to be already in the mindset of success.

The missing link

Now, this routine seems perfect. But, you cannot follow this routine for long unless there is a compelling mission of life.

But, even a mission may not fully inspire you for long. Many have failed in keeping up with their missions because of the repeated failures, fear, and depression.

But, there is one thing that can keep you going even through the most intimidating hurdles — that is your deity. For this, you will have to choose a right deity, make it your MASTER, and build your mission and life around it.

Your deity is the almighty that you have chosen to guide you all through your endeavours.

With your deity at the back supporting you, and a mission leading you, your routine becomes invincible.

Before you go: Do you think this information is enough to recharge your routine? Do you need more details? Please write down your questions in the comments section.