12 Facts About Bhakti

Bhakti literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".

Bhakti ideas have inspired many popular texts and saint-poets in India.

Bhakti is found in other religions practiced in India, and it has influenced interactions between Christianity and Hinduism in the modern era.

Bhakti adds that, in the concept of bhakti in Hinduism, the engagement involves a simultaneous tension between emotion and intellection, "emotion to reaffirm the social context and temporal freedom, intellection to ground the experience in a thoughtful, conscious approach".

Bhakti Movement was a rapid growth of bhakti, first starting in the later part of 1st millennium CE, from Tamil Nadu in southern India with the Shaiva Nayanars and the Vaishnava Alvars.

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Bhakti movement swept over east and north India from the fifteenth-century onwards, reaching its zenith between the 15th and 17th century CE.

Postmodern scholars question this traditional view and whether the Bhakti movement were ever a social reform or rebellion of any kind.

Bhakti Yoga is described by Swami Vivekananda as "the path of systematized devotion for the attainment of union with the Absolute".

Bhakti who sees equality in everything, In the image of his own Self, Arjuna, Whether in pleasure or in pain, Is thought to be a supreme yogi.

Bhakti has been a common aspect of Buddhism, where offerings and group prayers are made to images such the images of the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas, or to deities such as wrathful deities.

Bhakti is often used disparagingly to describe acts of worship to deities, often seen as ineffective and improper for a Buddhist.

Bhakti has been a prevalent ancient practice in various Jaina sects, wherein learned Tirthankara and human gurus have been venerated with offerings, songs and Arati prayers.