How can I practice devotional love when I don't belong to a religious tradition?

Mirabai didn't ask permission to love God—she just did it, across caste and custom. Devotional love isn't locked behind temple doors or scripture. It's the capacity to feel something larger than yourself, to offer your attention and heart to it, whether that's a practice, a person, nature, or an ideal you're devoted to. Start where you already feel it. What makes you lose track of time? What do you return to because it matters? That's devotion. You might tend a garden with the same reverence Mirabai brought to singing. You might sit in silence, or move, or create—the form changes, the quality of presence is what counts. The examined heart—that's Mirabai's real teaching. She didn't hide her love or her questions. She grieved when devotion hurt. She stayed curious about what she felt. That vulnerability, that refusal to perform certainty, that's available to you right now, in whatever framework makes sense. Devotion without dogma means showing up with your whole self, not a edited version. It means letting love change you. That's the practice.