Acharya Prashant explains that Vedanta does not talk excessively about devotion because it is entirely based on devotion. What is foundational does not need to be expressed in many words. He quotes Lao Tzu, who said that when people talk too much about love, it means there is no love. To understand devotion, one must first understand the devotee, which is the mind. The mind's fundamental problem is its unfulfillment; it wants something but doesn't know what it wants. This is the condition of every human being. The mind wanders, accumulating all sorts of trash, yet nothing satisfies it because the mind itself is the source of its desires. One cannot desire something that is not already within the mind's content, or 'mind-stuff'. The speaker clarifies that this creates a paradoxical situation where the mind chases desires that arise from its own unsatisfying content. In the name of devotion, people become devoted to this 'mind-stuff', which is essentially desire, not true devotion. He emphasizes that devotion (Bhakti) is a wonderful and the highest possible state, quoting Ramana Maharshi who called Bhakti the mother of all realization. The issue is not with devotion itself, but with the nonsense practiced in its name. True devotion begins when one decides not to respect the mind's content. Attraction towards mind-stuff is desire, whereas devotion is attraction towards something beyond the mind. He further explains that the saints' emphasis on the Lord's name refers to a name that is nameless ('Naam anaam'), a name without any meaning within the mind. Repeating this nameless name helps one to be relieved of all the other names and stories that plague the mind, leading to peace. The distinction is crucial: attraction towards something within the mind is desire, while attraction towards something beyond the mind is devotion. Devotion is love for liberation and understanding. True devotion and knowledge (Gyan) are inseparable. The problem arises when, in the name of devotion, one worships the ego and its projections, which is an anti-spiritual act. True devotion is towards that which is beyond the mind, the sacred, which cannot be a creation of the mind's own fertile imagination.