It also means in some religions, a complete surrender to divinity as the devotee's savior from the quagmires of a worldly existence. The word devotion, primarily in a religious sense, is also associated with salvation. In some religions, this means seeking God's benevolence for the deliverance of the faithful from the cycle of birth to death. Devotion is a common element in most religious cultures, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and others. Christianity adds an additional dimension to the concept of devotion as essential to the liberation of the soul tainted by desire. Without God's grace, it is not possible to become free from desires which are a prerequisite for seeking salvation. In devotional mysticism, common in religions but particularly strong in certain religions, God is conceived as someone with whom one is deeply in love, and one can only unite with the loved one through complete abandonment to the divinity, unconditional abandonment. In the Sufi tradition, the mystical element is even stronger. The devotee assumes that initially he thought that it was he alone who sought union with God, but then he realized that God was also interested in union with his devotee. In turn, he sought his devotee with the same passion. Such mystical elements are strong in other Hindu and Vaishnavite sects in India, such as