Respect for the realization in the quote below:

"Upon sitting for meditation, I observed that harnessing the emotional energy as a form of devotion may present many complications.... From my current standpoint, I believe that a respectable posture, void of the emotional energy, should be assumed towards one’s teachers and deities. This may protect one from compromising the sanctity of those relationships."

An additional anchor is of course the sublime and benevolent naad as soon as detected. Inself Yogin teachers may not generally want to be the focus of meditational energies from students, unlike other devotional processes. They may consider such focus more as a botheration or disturbance. 

Should one be so exalted, then I presume select deiti(es) can be the focus of meditative devotional energies.