Bhakti-- what is it?
Bhakti: (“devotion,” from Sanskrit bhaj, “to share,” “to love”), in Hinduism, a movement emphasizing the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee. According to the BhagvadGita, a Hindu religious text, the path of bhakti (bhakti-marga) can be contrasted with two other religious approaches, the path of knowledge (jnana) and the path of ritual and good works (karma).
Bhakti arose in South India in the 7th to 10th centuries in poems that the Azhars and the Nayanars Vishnu composed in Tamil to the gods and ... (100 of 553 words)
Source: bhakti. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/63933/bhakti
Over the years there have been many important figures in the Bhakti Movement. With some of the most important undoubtably being:
