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2. BHAKTI. Love of God, surrender to the guru and/or to the chosen deity"FOCUS ON DEVOTION. 3. BHAKTI MOVEMENT. 1st wave - began in South India in the 6th C. CE2nd wave North India by 13th C. CE . 4. POET-SAINTS. All levels of society thus not caste boundWomen and menVernacular langua
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1. 1 HINDUISM: THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT RS 390
WEEK 3
DR. DORIS R. JAKOBSH
2. 2 BHAKTI
Love of God, surrender to the guru and/or to the chosen deity
FOCUS ON DEVOTION
3. 3 BHAKTI MOVEMENT
1st wave - began in South India in the 6th C. CE
2nd wave North India by 13th C. CE
4. 4 POET-SAINTS
All levels of society thus not caste bound
Women and men
Vernacular languages vs. Sanskrit
popular religious world - popular, rebellion against orthodox limitations as to who can be liberated, i.e., experience moksha (liberation from rebirth) and what is devotion, i.e., priesthood as mediator- popular, rebellion against orthodox limitations as to who can be liberated, i.e., experience moksha (liberation from rebirth) and what is devotion, i.e., priesthood as mediator
5. 5 LATE MEDIEVAL BHAKTI
Influenced by South Indian Bhakti
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Islam Mughal rule 1211 Delhi Sultanate established thus, the wave of bhakti devotionalism spread northward, and, with the Delhi Sultanate (Mughal rule), came another influence; especially the devotionalism, the focus on divine love of Sufism
Again, as noted earlier, in some ways, you have a fusion; one of the great Bhakti poets was Kabir, who was raised as a Muslim but for many of these poet-saints, love for the Divine, losing oneself in the Divine could not be boundaried could not be restricted to one tradition or the other thus, the wave of bhakti devotionalism spread northward, and, with the Delhi Sultanate (Mughal rule), came another influence; especially the devotionalism, the focus on divine love of Sufism
Again, as noted earlier, in some ways, you have a fusion; one of the great Bhakti poets was Kabir, who was raised as a Muslim but for many of these poet-saints, love for the Divine, losing oneself in the Divine could not be boundaried could not be restricted to one tradition or the other
6. 6 BHAKTI PATH
ONLY PATH THAT MATTERED:
COMPLETE AND UTTER DEVOTION TO GOD
7. 7 TWO FORMS
SAGUNA BHAKTI God with attributes
NIRGUNA BHAKTI God without attributes
8. 8 Saguna Bhakta - MIRABAI http://www.syda.org/community/families/tales_2000/mirabai/1.html