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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.
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.
A movement led by Meher Baba states that "out of a number of practices which lead to the ultimate goal of humanity – God-Realization – Bhakti Yoga is one of the most important. Almost the whole of humanity is concerned with Bhakti Yoga, which, in simple words, means the art of worship. But it must be understood in all its true aspects, and ...
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 ]
Some Bhakti schools evolved their ideas where God became the means and the end, transcending moksha; the fruit of bhakti is bhakti itself. [55] In the history of Indian religious traditions, additional ideas and paths to moksha beyond these three, appeared over time.
Historically, Bhagavatism corresponds to the development of a popular theistic movement in India, departing from the elitist sacrificial rites of Vedism, [7] and initially focusing on the worship of the Vrishni hero VÄsudeva in the region of Mathura. [1] It later assimilated into the concept of Narayana [8] where Krishna is conceived as svayam ...
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