bhakti

Over the next thousand years that note swelled into a chorus that swept the whole subcontinent, region by region, language by language. We call it, today, the Bhakti movement.

And, increasingly, bhakti , loving devotion to a personal God, which the later Puranas raise into the central path.

Scholars argue over whether the term it uses, bhakti , already carried its later religious charge of loving devotion or meant something plainer like attachment.

…s of the tradition, in the Tantric lineages especially and in much of bhakti practice, the mantra received at initiation is held close.

Several scholars connect its prominence to the medieval flowering of devotional, bhakti religion, which drew local harvest and prosperity rituals into a shared pan-Indian frame.

This was the whole point of the bhakti movement he belonged to: that devotion should not be locked behind a language most people could not read.

The text lists dvesha , enmity, alongside bhakti , devotion, among the states that hold the divine constantly in mind, and it has a word for what Hiranyakashipu practised: vairanubandha , the bond of hostility.

The devotional, bhakti , schools teach that divine grace, kripa , can override accumulated karma altogether.