Love is essential- love for the lord. Sri Ramakrishna always said- do we weep for the Lord? There is no point in saying we are yoga practitioners and we love asanas or to say that when we practice asana we are bakthas in the asana.
A carpenter loves his /her job, a dancer loves her dance but this does not make for a devotee.
Morever, we cannot and should not proclaim that we are a devotee- that is for the Lord to say. He alone knows our inner selves better than us as He is the indeweller. A true baktha of the Lord takes praise and blame, happiness and sorrow- with equanimity. This is not easy and we must pray to God to bless us with that state of equanimity. .
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