The song is one of the Tukaram's 4,000 verses and is aptly fitted with the devotional worship of Vithoba.
The distraught mother of Ravana went on a hunger strike as her devotional worship of Shiva was disrupted.
Shiva pleased with all this devotional worship agreed to bestow boons to Ravana.
He is considered a fountainhead of devotional worship of Krishna and he has started the worship of the Gopala deity, better known as Shrinathji.
During this period the vedic fire sacrifice became minimised with the development of devotional worship (puja) to images of deities in temples.
This mythology of Krishna love play with gopis is also described theologically as devotional worship of Krishna.
As such, Adi Da stated that devotional worship of him is the sole means of spiritual enlightenment for others.
In contrast to the stupas, the hollow gu-style temple is a structure used for meditation, devotional worship of the Buddha and other Buddhist rituals.
There was a St. Donatus Brotherhood, but when in 1944 the statue was destroyed, this devotional worship gradually less.
Adi Shankara himself was a proponent of devotional worship or Bhakti.