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They are in the bhakti tradition, and most passionately praised Lord ... as a saint in the tradition of the Bhakti Movement. The sixteenth-century ...

are popular texts among specific Hindu bhakti movements and sectarian schools ... concepts in their narration, from Bhakti to Samkhya. Sanskrit Mahapuranas ...

of the people to spread the ideas of bhakti through songs, literature ... They sought to teach the Hindu doctrine of bhakti (Hari bhakti) to the common ...

===Bhakti yoga=== relationship is found in the practice of bhakti (Sanskrit: "Devotion ...

Marathi poet Sant of India, related to the Bhakti movement of Maharashtra. ... abhanga form, interpreting the Gita from a Bhakti perspective, is ascribed ...

and the divine could only be bridged by bhakti, or devotion. Many of Madhva ... (aparoksa-jnana) of Brahman is through bhakti yoga, the path of devotion ...

a scholar, a philosopher, and devotional (bhakti) preacher. He is especially ... not illusions. According to Vallabha, bhakti, a firm and all-surpassing ...

of God, which can only be acquired through bhakti (devotion). The liberated ... where great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement such as Purandara ...

of human spirituality: Devotion (Bhakti), truth or intellect (Jnana ... ==Bhakti movement== The medieval Bhakti movement has had a significant ...

#039;s unquestioning devotion, as exemplified in bhakti. ... should be to surrender oneself to Isvara through bhakti. ...

truth. Known as an ardent practitioner of bhakti (devotion) toward different ... He was a fervent practitioner of bhakti (devotion to god), and is ...

===Nanak and the Bhakti movement=== Guru Nanak was born at a time when the Hindu Bhakti (devotional) movement ...

# Bhakti Yoga, or love and devotion to a personalized form of God ... escaping samsāra, and one must practice bhakti in order to obtain liberation ...

Namdev (occasionally Nam Dev or Sant Namdev) (c. 1270 - c. 1350 C.E.) was a prominent Bhakti poet of Maharashtra and among the earliest of those ...

of God, which can only be won through bhakti (pure-hearted devotion). ... of God, which can only be won through bhakti (pure-hearted devotion). ...

Bhedābheda ideas also had a powerful influence on the devotional ... closely associated with the movement of bhakti devotionalism. Bhedābheda ...

teaching a process of liberation known as bhakti yoga. Buddhist sources present ... *Bhakti Yoga *Samkhya ==Notes== ==References== *Dasgupta, Surendranath ...

entities. This school propounds Bhakti, or devotion to God visualized ... entities. This school also advocated Bhakti as the route to liberation ...

to have great effect on the devotional bhakti movement that arose in medieval ... complete surrender to Ishvara by way of bhakti. Many other contemporary ...

loving devotion to a divine principle (bhakti); and socially, they stressed ... the exponent's presentation of bhakti (devotion) and the description ...

despised. The Lord is to be approached by faith, (bhakti) disinterested devotion, and surrender of self in perfect love, and all actions are to be purified ...

:(3) Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion to a deity (for example, to ... yoga may include love and devotion (as in Bhakti Yoga), selfless work (as ...

(jnana) yoga and the devotional (bhakti) yoga, the yoga of ordinary ... possible in that level. Devotion (Bhakti) will cancel the effects ...

the yogic paths of devotional service (bhakti), action (karma) , meditation ... :12. Krishna describes the process of devotional service (Bhakti Yoga). ...

in Vaishnavism is also informed by bhakti, an intense form of devotionalism ... cults. Around this time there developed a bhakti cult centered around Vasudeva ...

Attempts by Amar Singh’s most able lieutenant, Bhakti Thapa, to dislodge the British from the Dionthal ridge overlooking the Malaun fort, failed. Although ...

attempts to promulgate the practice of Bhakti Yoga, a program of intense ... texts on theological topics such as bhakti yoga, meditation, karma, ...

Furthermore, in bhakti yoga a person can be in a relationship with God called Dasyu-bhakta, meaning being a "slave of God." Initiated ...

has been interpreted by many followers of bhakti as the devotional ideal. ... ===Bhakti=== The Puranic age also saw the genesis of the Bhakti movement ...

Rama have come to exemplify the ideal for bhakti (devotional) followers of ... the prototype for people who subscribed to bhakti movement, a form of religious ...

personal philosophy that combined Ramakrishna’s bhakti, or devotion, the teachings of the Hindu philosophical school of Advaita Vedanta, and service ...

:(3) Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion to a deity (for example, to Krishna). ===Patanjali=== [[Image:patanjali.jpg|Patañjali as an incarnation ...

were among first proponents of the bhakti movement, which centered ... During the later medieval period, the bhakti movement went on to become ...

(as opposed to Sanskrit)part of a larger Bhakti tradition, (strongly related ... substantially influenced by the pan-Indian bhakti movement which inspired the ...

six-stage path of devotion and surrender: bhakti (devotion), mahesha (selfless ... believe taking a dip in Ganga with Bhakti will wash off all your sins ...

==The Puranas and the Devotional Strand (Bhakti)== [[File:Elephanta ... quest for moksha. This is known as the bhakti tradition, or way (marga ...

Yakshagana arose from the Vaishnava bhakti movement as a means of entertaining ... Yakshagana is essentially a product of the Vaishnava bhakti movement ...

entity, rather distant from the popular bhakti movements of Hinduism, the stories and iconography of Brahmā remained accessible to the common ...

attain an ecstasy state called samādhi. Bhakti Yoga especially, places emphasis ... Within Hinduism, Bhakti denotes devotion to a particular deity or ...

Indian culture in general, especially among the bhakti (devotional) movements of India. Today, his teachings and exploits are still widely celebrated ...

cosmic Hari turning into the ultimate object of bhakti. Kalyan Kumar Ganguli, Sraddh njali, Studies in Ancient Indian History, D.C. Sircar Commemoration: ...

with the onset of the essentially monotheistic bhakti (loving devotion) movement. The rise of scriptures called the Puranas, focused on particular ...

Srirangam, preached the way of devotion (bhakti marga) and wrote Sribhashya ... Another wave of devotion (bhakti) in the seventeenth–eighteenth ...

elements both of this school as well as of bhakti and Islam. In his life and ... the importance of devotion to God - bhakti - and surrender to his will ...

substantially influenced by the pan-Indian bhakti movement which inspired the ... substantially influenced by the pan-Indian bhakti movement which inspired the ...

Of his own free will, humanity must seek God. Bhakti (devotion) or disinterested service to God, which can only be performed by someone who understands ...

Adi Shankara himself was a proponent of devotional worship or Bhakti ... * Mishra, Adya Prasad. The development and place of bhakti in Sankaran ...

period, which became the favorite text of the Bhakti tradition. It also challenges an elitist religion. Runion says that the Sunga spread Hinduism ...

based streams as varied as fideism and the Hindu bhakti movement, intellectual knowledge of the divine's existence is considered inferior to unquestioning ...

to Sanskrit). This was part of a larger Bhakti tradition, (strongly related ... at least for a few generations. The Bhakti and Sufi traditions continued ...

conquered for ultimate salvation: dharma, bhakti (devotion), gnana (knowledge ... (detachment from material pleasure), and bhakti (pure, selfless devotion ...

toward the paths of dharma (righteousness), bhakti (devotion), and ultimately moksha (liberation). The Dasavatars, that is, the ten well-known avatars ...

* Tapasyananda. 1990. Bhakti schools of Vedānta: lives and philosophies of Rāmānuja, Nimbārka, Mādhva, Vallabha, and Caitanya. Madras: Sri ...

yoga meditation — or in other traditions, bhakti, or devotional meditation, with prayers to their chosen deity or God. The goal of the Hindu Sannsyasin ...

and the only one that focuses on the bhakti tradition and the puja to ... spiritual effulgence. Swami Tapasyananda, Bhakti Schools of Vedanta (Ishi ...

and preached the way of devotion (bhakti marga). He later wrote Sribhashya ... mystic Akka Mahadevi whose devotion to the bhakti movement has become famous ...

of northern India such as Sant Mat, Hindu Bhakti, and Sufism.Geoffrey Parrinder, World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present (London: ...

*Tapasyananda, Swami. Bhakti Schools of Vedanta. Hollywood, CA: Vedanta Press and Catalog, 1991. ISBN 8171202268 ==External links== ...

momentum alongside the fruition of the bhakti movement, primarily with the introduction of the Devi-Bhagavata. In this text, the goddess is attributed ...

foothold in the Pandyan kingdom. With the advent of Bhakti movements, Saivism and Vaishnavism resurfaced. The latter-day Pandyas after 600 CE were Saivites ...

seeks salvation through total devotion (or bhakti) to the God developed through ... (vairagya), and selfless devotion to God (bhakti) – the four essentials ...

converted to Hinduism. They encouraged the Bhakti movement, which had risen ... played a key role in the renaissance of Bhakti tradition in South India ...

(Tamil: இளையராஜா, ɪləjəɹɑːdʒɑː ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer, and lyricist, ...

of which this path consists. In the schools of Bhakti Yoga, the devotees who worship Vishnu or Krishna are particularly keen on ahimsa. ...

The Bhakti (devotional) movement had been active during that time ... writings supporting the Vaishnava Bhakti movement heralded by the ...

and a form of worship having much in common with bhakti (Hindu devotion and love-mysticism). Sufi shrines soon became holy places, and flowers are ...

* Importance of bhakti (devotion) to God. * Developing virtues (prashanti) and eschewing vices of character. * Japa and other sadhana (spiritual ...

action, devotion, and knowledge. Put simply, Bhakti Yoga is Service in Love and Devotion to God (Krishna in the context of the Bhagavadgita). Karma ...

the language of ritual, is in keeping with the bhakti ideal of the immediacy of devotion. Sri Syama Sastri, the oldest of the trinity, was taught ...

A monk (from Greek: monos meaning "alone") is a term denoting any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy ...

In Hinduism bhakti is a Sanskrit term meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God." Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have ...

324 During the Chalukya rule, the Bhakti movement gained momentum in south India in the form of Ramanujacharya and Basavanna later spreading ...

realm of Hindu literature, that of bhakti. It is an acknowledged masterpiece of India. It is popularly known as "Tulsi-krita Ramayana." ...

which left everything to the priests, and to the bhakti (devotional) tradition, that leaves liberation to the gods (albeit in return for devotion and ...

way of action (karma yoga), the way of devotion (bhakti yoga), and the way of knowledge (jnana yoga). Following these paths perfectly results in the ...

quot;), Japa Yoga, in (repetition of a mantra), Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of love and devotion), Hatha Yoga, in which postures and meditations are aimed ...

The Hindu bhakti tradition utilizes music and dance to tell the stories of the deities Krishna and Lakshmi, Rama and Sita; poets in this tradition ...

Other Hindu schools, such as the dualist Dvaita Vedanta and other bhakti schools, understand Brahman as a Supreme Being who possesses personality ...

schools ("dualistic" schools, such as bhakti yoga), on the other hand, perform their worship with the goal of spending eternity in a loka, ...

to the personal God in a process called bhakti (or "loving devotion ... * Tapasyananda, Swami. Bhakti Schools of Vedanta. Hollywood, CA: Vedanta ...

(e.g., Hildegard of Bingen), Jewish Kabbala, the Bhakti movement in India, Sufism in Islam, and Zen Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism in the Far East. ...

worship and believes in one God, just like the Bhakti reform movement in Hinduism and also like Islam does. The following religions might have ...

just. However, in Buddhism and in the bhakti traditions of Hinduism, the way to liberation is open to all people regardless of caste or social ...

Bhakti (Bhatti in Pali), or devotion is an important part of the practice of most Buddhists. Devotional practices include ritual prayer, prostration ...