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HINDUISM: THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT

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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HINDUISM: THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT

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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 AND 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

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