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  2. Bhakti - Wikipedia

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    Second, these new devotional communities of Mughal India were alike in their production and performance of devotional works, composed in vernacular languages, remembering the deeds of God (especially Kṛṣṇa and Rām) and exemplary bhaktas. Third, important in all these communities was the performance and collection of songs attributed to ...

  3. Bhakti yoga - Wikipedia

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    Bhakti yoga by a Hindu in Himachal Pradesh. The Sanskrit word bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which means "divide, share, partake, participate, to belong to". [2] [15] [16] The word also means "attachment, devotion to, fondness for, homage, faith or love, worship, piety to something as a spiritual, religious principle or means of ...

  4. Bhakti movement - Wikipedia

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    However, given the "mountains of Nirguni bhakti literature", Bhakti for Nirguna Brahman has been a part of the reality of the Hindu tradition along with the Bhakti for Saguna Brahman. [101] Thus, these were two alternate ways of imagining God even in the bhakti movement. [98]

  5. Faith in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    One of the key pillars which supports faith in Hinduism is bhakti. Bhakti means intense and devotional love towards god, and together with faith, supports the path towards moksha, the ultimate goal of life within the Hindu belief system.

  6. God in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    In Bhakti, the emphasis is reciprocal love and devotion, where the devotee loves God, and God loves the devotee. [ 114 ] Nirguna and Saguna Brahman concepts of the Bhakti movement has been a baffling one to scholars, particularly the Nirguni tradition because it offers, states David Lorenzen, "heart-felt devotion to a God without attributes ...

  7. Bhagavan - Wikipedia

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    In bhakti school literature, the term is typically used for any deity to whom prayers are offered. A particular deity is often the devotee's one and only Bhagavan. [2] The female equivalent of Bhagavān is Bhagavati. [4] [5] To some Hindus, the word Bhagavan is an abstract, genderless concept of God.

  8. List of Hindu deities - Wikipedia

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    Dyauṣ the "Sky" god, also called Dyeus and Prabhāsa or the "shining dawn", also called akasha or sky, Pṛthivī the "Earth" goddess/god, also called Dharā or "support" and Bhumi or Earth, Sūrya the "Sun" god, also called Pratyūsha , ("break of dawn", but often used to mean simply "light"), the Saura sect worships Sūrya as their chief ...

  9. Bhagavad Gita - Wikipedia

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    The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.