Exploring the Rise of Digital Devotion in PFP

<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style='font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"'><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Display pictures are no longer limited to simply displaying images and personality, but have also become a means of demonstrating spiritual devotion. While a tilak is applied to the forehead, mantras are chanted, and an image of a deity, such as Krishna, is often displayed, but this is now increasingly being done digitally, with people preferring to display their identity, faith, and devotion online through Instagram, WhatsApp, and their status bios. This digital devotion has become necessary for digital expression for humans; hence, people have started displaying spirituality digitally along with traditional symbols.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style='font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"'><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Profile Pictures as Digital Altars:</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Profile pictures are used for self-expression and representation, which has gained immense importance in the digital world because by putting a DP on the profile of any online platform, a digital identity is created, and people publicly display about themselves to others through their profile. In these profiles, people maintain their individuality while maintaining faith and privacy, but in today's digital age, they display not only personality but also spiritual feelings. For this, people remember the divine presence by showing devotion in their profile DP images, posts or statuses and even in their bios and inspire others to join in devotion.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style='font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"'><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Why Krishna? The Symbolism Behind the DP: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Krishna ji is chosen the most in a spiritual way because he is of a playful nature and has many stories in his life, which are motivating and inspirational. Seeing the picture of Krishna ji, one feels a spiritual connection, be it the child Krishna image or the charioteer Krishna images, giving the message of the Geeta. All the pictures of Krishna are aesthetic and beautiful, which reflect the divine personality of Krishna; hence, people use many DPs of Krishna Art for digital devotion, which further increases his importance. To understand Krishna Art better, have a look at </span><a href="https://piclover.neocities.org/art-of-krishna-dps-digital-devotion" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline" target="_blank" rel=" noopener"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">how Krishna DPs symbolise digital devotion</span></strong></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt">.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style='font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"'><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Future of Digital Devotion:</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> The digital world will be many times more than it is today in the future, where everything, every emotion, will be carried out digitally to the point where people may or may not meet physically, but through digital means, they will be able to know a lot about each other and will be influenced by their thoughts. <strong><a href="https://medium.com/@piclover/exploring-the-rise-of-digital-devotion-in-pfp-de17247e47d2" target="_blank" rel=" noopener">Click</a></strong></span></span></span></p>