•On a more worldly level, we also establish an ongoing relationship with a Buddhist deity that is well suited for us (emotionally, spiritually) and we continue to ritually invoke that deity as a way to advance our spiritual progress, to the point where we enter a higher Buddhist realm of existence (in the next life).
•As we make spiritual progress, we become more and more advanced in our consciousness, in the same way a yogi (practitioner of yoga) or a sadhu becomes more and more spiritually powerful from advanced meditative practice.