Here the RSS chiefs opposition to Islam, the sufi and
bhakti sects and Gandhism and by extension to Christianity, liberalism and socialism, are all one piece.
Clearly, the Bodhisattvas and the unnumbered Buddhas, and the dependence for salvation upon Buddhas or Bodhisattvas — toward whom the characteristic
Bhakti or love, or service or faith is directed in the popular
sects — all find their roots in the contemporary Hinduism of the years when Mahayana was developing.