Talk:Bhagavan Is Always Present with His True Bhaktas
The followers of the tradition of Bhakti Yoga believe that whenever they gather together to worship Bhagavān, He is present in the midst of them.
Invoked by His Bhaktas, the Lord promptly reveals Himself and makes them experience Him. Nārada Bhakti Sūtra 80
In this connection, a beautiful story is narrated about the life of the first 3 of the 12 Tamil Vaishavite saints called the Alvars.
One day, Poygai Alvar arrived at a place called Tirukkovalur in Tamil Nadu. It was raining heavily. Suddenly, he saw a small thatched hut. To avoid getting soaked, he entered the hut, and finding it empty, he laid down on the floor and started chanting the praises of Vishnu. By a coincidence, Pudatt Alvar also arrived, and entered the hut to avoid getting drenched. Poygai got up and sat, to make space for Pudatt. After some time, Pey-Alvar also arrived, and the other two now got up and stood on their feet to share the small hut with the new guest.
The three men did not know each other. But very soon they discovered that they shared a common interest – extreme devotion for Bhagavān Vishnu. So they started composing beautiful hymns of devotion and began chanting then. While worshipping Vishnu with their hymns, they became emotional. Tears flowed from their eyes, and their hair stood on their ends. Suddenly they noticed that in addition to them three, there was a fourth person standing snugly with them in the hut, filling it with a Divine radiance and fragrance. They realized that it was none other than Vishnu, who was in the midst of them, listening to their hymns full of Bhakti. Each of the three Alvar saints then sang 100 hymns to Vishnu that they composed extempore, and these were collected in the Divya-Prabandham, the sacred scripture of the Shri Vaishnava Hindu community. The story of these three saints shows that whenever Bhaktas gather together to chant verses in praise of Bhagavān, he is always present with them even though He is invisible.