Is Devotion Lip Service?

It needs no elaboration to describe the very simple fact that the term devotion has been misinterpreted and misused throughout the history of every religion. Devotion has often been conceived as a prayerful life to be devoted to God and prayer has been defined as something that is to be done through the words uttered by each devotee. The question that arises here is, if devotion is something that can be freed from action or karma. If devotion is the means to provide you happiness, then mere lip service should be enough to reach that. This is but a mis-concept shared by most of the religions. All prophets and great men throughout the history of the world have cautioned that devotion should never be confined to lip service, in the sense that devotion can be expressed only through action. If according to the Advaita system, words are only the result of actions and there cannot be words without action. Advaita specifically believes that mind, words and deeds must be unified. If mind, words and deeds must be a unified entity, then it is absolutely illogical to separate one from the other. Truly, one cannot separate words from karma or karma from words and both from the mind of the person concerned. So, the general faith shared by some of the advaitans that devotion is something inferior to action or gyana is absolutely non-sense. We have already seen that, devotion is the result of one of the forms of manifestations of karma and if so, it is not practically possible to separate devotion from karma and you also cannot attribute that devotion is inferior to gyana or karma. Using the same logic it can be argued that karma and Gyana also cannot be separated. So, what according to Advaita logic is that gyana, bhakthi and karma have been unified at a single point; it is that point of single unity that function at a particular space, time context. In brief, you cannot say that a man who devotes himself in contemplating the high ideas in his life must be better than the person who does something for the benefit of the whole universe. Mahatma Gandhi has once made it clear that the man who does something for the benefit of at least one is better than the person who thinks only in abstract terms in his life for the whole generation. A person who thinks for the whole generation and does nothing to benefit at least one is definitely a logical contradiction. Therefore, according to the Advaita system one cannot argue that the person who concentrates on intellectual contemplation can never be treated as a superior person. But unfortunately, this concept has been shared by some of the Indian Rishis and Indian pundits (learned persons). However, that very concept has to be deleted from the very context of contemporary interpretation of the inter connection and inner connection between bhakthi, gyana and karma. What I am telling is that it is humanly, logically and practically impossible to separate one from between gyana, karma and bhakthi.