why do people sing hymns

Why do people visit religious places / they sing hymns?

I was actually pondering over this thought since last 2 days. I got some answers but they may be wrong. Whenever you visit a temple,you try to concentrate on something (some idol or even you are not concentrating on idol, in your mind you paint the Gods picture and pray). Isn't this another form of meditation. The fundamental of meditation as far as I believe is to concentrate and keep your mind blank. And this is what temples and other religious places are made for.

Even when you sing hymns and praise for the Lord, you are single minded concentrating on God. The highest meditation form is that you have reached the absolute thoughtless state. A visit to a temple or singling bhajans is one of the ways to reach towards the ultimate stage. Even in Gita, Krishna has mentioned three ways for making yourself enlightened namely Karma Yog (throgh actions without expectation of results),Bhakti Yog (through devotion), Jyana yog (through knowledge), and Raja Yog (through meditation).

So this is a Bhakti Yog and helps in reaching towards path of enlightenment and vairagya (dis-attachment).

Now for the next post, I am thinking about - who is GOD?
(PS.-I am still in Senses :))

learnings from sam walton

-What did I gain by reading this book?
-Be passionate in business you take than anybody else
-Always change even when it is not essential to do that. Don't become to predictable
-Learn from your competitors, Associates, support staff always does the ground research. Computers will just say how much and not how
-Prepare to bring in staff more qualified than you are
-Invest in systems that are going to benefit your customers. They will appreciate that and become your repeat customers
-Set goals and strive to achieve those
-Laugh at your failures
-Hold Saturday meetings to know more about the specific stores, and the successful store can disseminate information to the stores that are not working
-Make the associates as partners in the business. Aim for servant-leader (you are the both) relationship
-Try new promotions and new things rather than not doing anything, and be open to fail in that
-Be a family man too (also coming from Dhirubhai Ambani)
-Be frugal, but at the same time if something is needed for gaining competitive advantage, spend the amount in a judicious manner, and especially do that if it is helping customers
-Like your customer and never lose him. Do everything that he wants. Always over deliver.
.....and many more
-Have now picked up, the biography of JRD TATA-Over the last blue Mountain-By R M LALA, will post my learning after finishing it.