They purify not just their family, not just their relatives, but the whole world. They bring holiness to the land, to the place, to the holy place. The holy place is where devotees walk, devotees sit, devotees think. That is teertha-that is the holy place. They make even the holy places holier. If a holy place is devoid of devotees who cry for the Divinity, it is no more holy.
If a holy place is a place of fight and crime, it has lost it’s vibration, it’s serenity, it’s holiness. How can a sacred place maintain its sacredness? It is by devotees being there, singing, praising the glory of the Divine. When such devotees walk there, the place becomes holy and they make every action holy.
They make every action good action, right action and they make the scriptures true, they testify the scriptures. Devotees fulfil the scriptures. Shastrani anyone can read a book to you, it is not a shastra. But when you hear someone reading a book and it gets into you, that is shastra. Shastra is that which directly keeps you in touch with the truth, which touches your heart.
Do you see what I’m saying? Sometimes you hear something and it clicks, somewhere you feel "Yes, this is it” That exclamation that arises in your heart, “Oh yes, I agree, I know” that is shastra. That is sushastra, the right scriptures, right wisdom. They bring life to wisdom. You find wisdom in all the libraries, knowledge is there everywhere in the libraries, but it doesn’t integrate with life.
When knowledge does not integrate with life, it does not become wisdom with integration of knowledge, life happens. They are filled by him. A devotee is filled, every particle of the devotee is filled with the Divine. His heart, his mind, his breath, his body, everywhere it is only the Divine love that is present.
A devotee’s glory is so much more than God Himself. People who have crossed over, the ancestors, those who have died, they simply rejoice in the very presence of such a devotee. They simply love them. All the angels and all the divinities the devas, they dance.
And this earth finds the Lord in such a devotee. The earth finds a caretaker, the earth relaxes. All the species on earth relax. There is somebody there to take care of me, who cares for me, who loves me. The earth finds a caretaker in the devotee. All the departed souls who have left this body rejoice. They find such peace and happiness.
