There are non-believers (nastik) who do not believe in God and the believers in God. These believers are of so many different sects that it is difficult to classify them. The believers start from worship of the dead and their place of cremation or burial and lit the lamp regularly. Some worship the their teachers and their paduka. There are many who worship the fig tree (ashvatha), the serpents and the stone image of serpents, birds and what not! The belief system, the 'faith' of the believers is more important.
Bhagavan Shree Krishna says, there are four types of people who worship him (BG Ch. VII verse 13). Those who do good deeds pray for material welfare and resources and wealth. Some in difficulties pray to ward of their problems such as poverty, sickness, ignorance, etc. Some intelligent persons pray for knowledge of discretion and clarity in good and bad and prevent bad things happening with or without their knowledge that harm others. But, the most sincere devotees of mine always pray to give them a steady, unswerving devotion in Me and these are the best whom i like most. They easily attain to Me. There are many devotees who love me, devotedly worship me and do not ask anything from Me. They know what they want. By their sheer devotion, they get everything, but they do not need anything in their ecstatic state of devotion. "I take full care of them", says the Lord.
However, there is one important thing. God does not like people who want to show off that they are highly devoted to Me. They spend lots of money to decorate, perform functions and feed their friends and relatives to show off (dambhachar) their wealth with pride and ego. This will do no good! Beware, a true devotee is one who does not even know 'Whom' and 'what for' he /she prays to the Lord, like the innocent child Dhruva who constantly utters the name of Narayana!
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