Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Bhakti movement in Hinduism refers to ideas and engagement that emerged in the medieval era on love and devotion to religious concepts built around one or more gods and goddesses. The Bhakti movement preached against the caste system and used local languages and so the message reached the masses. One who practices bhakti is called a bhakta ...
Bhakti ideas have inspired many popular texts and saint-poets in India. The Bhagavata Purana, for example, is a Krishna-related text associated with the Bhakti movement in Hinduism. [13] Bhakti is also found in other religions practiced in India, [14] [15] [16] and it has influenced interactions between Christianity and Hinduism in the modern era.
This is the most important period, it was at this time that Krishnaism acquired the form in which its traditions exist to nowadays. The bhakti movement of the high and later Middle Ages Hinduism emerges in the 9th or 10th century, and is based (its Krishnaite form) on the Bhagavata Purana, Narada Bhakti Sutra, and other
The movement was led by the Saiva Nayanars [10] and the Vaisnava Alvars. Their ideas and practices inspired bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India over the 12th-18th century CE. [11] [10] Bhakti marga is a part of the religious practice in Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism. [12] [13] [14]
The Haridasa movement, a bhakti movement originated from Karnataka is a sub-branch of Sadh Vaishnavism. [277] Sadh Vaishnavism worships Vishnu as the highest Hindu deity and regards Madhva, whom they consider to be an incarnation of Vishnu's son, Vayu, as an incarnate saviour. [278]
Dasakuta was one of two divisions (along with Vyasakuta) of Haridasas, a group within the Bhakti movement, one of the monotheistic Hindu religious devotional movements focusing on the spiritual practice of loving devotion to a God, called bhakti. This generally means the worship of Lord Vishnu.
Bhakti Marga means "Path of Devotion". [10] [11] Hari means 'God' (more specifically Vishnu), Bhakta means 'devotees' and Sampradaya means 'lineage of teachings'.The sampradaya has been viewed as a combination of the teachings of various vedantic saints, such as Mahavatar Babaji, [12] [13] [5] [14] [6] Ramanujacharya and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, including other Hindu denominations.
These compositions were in simple Kannada language since the main objective of this movement was to take the devotional movement to the common man. [3] [23] In doing so, the common people were also educated in the importance of consciousness (jnana), devotion (bhakti), ethics and Hindu religion.