Any and every religious and spiritual activity may benefit our social and materialistic lives, but none of them guarantees enlightenment. Bhakti is the true expression of enlightenment. The avatars and enlightened masters who arrived on this planet simply played their roles as pure conduits of Divine expression. Whatever comes forth from this Divine Connection is part of Bhakti. Enlightenment cannot be accomplished through any religious or spiritual activity, but rather it is gifted to the purest souls that have come and gone, leaving beauty, transformation, grace, and stories in the passing of their presence.