What is Stotra?
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The person who had experienced the Truth, who had the glimpse of divine love, expresses his joy in the form of stotra. Stotra means expressing our devotion to God; to our Master. Expressing our deep love towards God is Sthotra.
Stotra is complete surrender to God. It is literature from the heart. It gives an emotional feeling. They are from the level of emotion, feeling and heart. When we have deep feeling we just express it. It just flows in the form of song, dance, poetry or simple expression of words of praise. Our whole being will be immersed and flowing with it, that is Stotra .
Goal of Stotra is God. They help us to surrender to God. The glory of the divine is expounded by Stotra . When we stand in front of God, in front of the deity we pour our heart out. All the songs of the great devotees such as Alvars, Nayanars, Meera, Chaithanya Mahaprabhu, Ramadas etc are stotra . While understanding stotras we should understand the spirit of stotra , which is the deep love and devotion of Bhaktas. Intellectuals and people with logic cannot understand stotras. They are beyond logic, language rules, grammar etc.