Devotee example sentences

Priests, hawkers, devotees, tourists, cows, monkeys, pigeons and dogs roam through the grounds.In this popular festival, devotees underwent a peculiar form of suffering as part of ritual worship.Devotees of all descriptions including members of the royalty and nobility, and ordinary people flocked to these khanqahs.Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, the celebrated Sufi saint (see also Chapter 8) who settled there in the twelfth century, attracted devotees from all creeds.One of the major developments was the emergence of the idea of bhakti — of a loving, personal deity that devotees could reach without the aid of priests or elaborate rituals.Eventually the Puranas also laid down that it was possible for devotees to receive the grace of God regardless of their caste status.ishnu in His grace helps the devotee to attain the bliss of union with Him.