While bhakti is an aspect of devotionalism it would be true to say that most devotionalism is informed in some way or other by bhakti. What characterizes both is a kind of intense theism by which the individual self is transcended through devotion to the divine. The individual must pour out his or her love in total self surrender to God. Again, we find the emphasis on loss of the egoistic self as in the way of knowledge, jnana marga. The idea of surrender ( prapatti ) to the deity is well described in the verses above from the Gita and it is this aspect which allows for so much diversity of practice. The singing of hymns in praise of the deity - called kirtan in the north and bhajans in the south - will take place at home or at the temple, and dancing, repetition of the deity's name or meditation on the deity for example, are kinds of activities by which the individual becomes so absorbed in the deity that the self is surrendered. Devotion to the deity is also expressed in terms of personal human relationships like that of child to parent, parent to child, servant to master, between friends or between lovers. And just as in these relationships the self is often surrendered for the good of the other, so the devotee can surrender the self to God through envisaging God in this way. Vaisnavism, in patticular, emphasizes single-pointed surrender on the part of the devotee: `The soul's destiny, through God's grace, is to eternally worship and enjoy him.