Sentences with phrase «half bhakti»

One was the rise of the powerful bhakti devotionalism in the lives of the alvar, and nayanar poets.

The other concession was accepting as orthodox Bhagavat monotheism with its bhakti - oriented form of worship and ethic (12:495).

The word bhakti and the related words bhagavat and bhagavata are derived from the root bhaj.

In spite of Shankara's genuine interest in devotionalism and the bhakti movements as important for life in the realm of avidya, the implications of his thought soon became clear.

The real religion of the Vedas is bhakti dharma or devotional service to Krishna / God.

In Hinduism there are the canonic mode of karma yoga, the charismatic understanding of bhakti yoga, and the gnostic orientation of jnana yoga.

Bhakti is only one way, Bhakti means loving and not expecting anything.

Bhakti extols possessing and being possessed by God.

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

Krishna in the north become the objects of bhakti's impassioned devotion, and bhakti poetry, brimming with love for the Lord flowers in the vernacular languages which, to some extent, take over from the language of «high» culture, Sanskrit.

The scriptures to which the bhakti poets so frequently refer affirm the hierarchy, yet they also recount efforts of God to cut through the hierarchy and sometimes even to reverse human and divine roles.

In this paper I have endeavoured to create an opportunity to explore these elements in Hindu bhakti and possible points of contact with elements in Christian tradition & experience.

With this the creators and audiences of bhakti poetry seek to project themselves into Radha's love for Krishna through poems that recount all its passionate phases.

The question of whether Radha was svakiya or parakiya became an important doctrinal issue for the medieval Vaisnava theologians, an issue which ultimately separated the orthodox from the Sahajiya Vaisnavas and marked a distinction between the Krishna - bhakti poets writing in Hindi and those writing in Bengali.

Further, in the intimacy of the bhakti relationship the male bhakta, by experiencing himself as female partner violates his primal sexual demarcation as a male.

The prevailing argument was that bhakti must be passionate and that the parakiya relationship creates greater passion than the svakiya one.

Here passionate love became sacralised as an expression of bhakti: the loving - woman's longing became devotion and love - making became worship..

Significantly, the bhakti cults gave more exalted reasons for making Radha an adulterous parakiya.

Bhakti movements within Hinduism between 14th and 16th centuries symbolised low castes» aspiration for an egalitarian society and religion.

But there are particularisms in South and East Asia as well» claims of particular revelations, that is» notably in the bhakti versions of Hinduism and in various Mahayana movements.

Moreover the British Colonial system dealt a decisive blow to the growth of the Bhakti movement.

Nevertheless, bhakti was but one of several ways in which man could or should relate himself to Brahman or to one of the Buddhas in some later forms of Buddhism.

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.

It has rightly been said of the Amida religion that it is bhakti - marga; here all commands are subordinated to one — the believer must put his faith and trust in Amitabha who, as a result of his especially high and merciful vow, is now enthroned as the king of Sukhavati, the western land of the blessed.

Sikhism represents a flowing together of the bhakti Hindu faith of Ramanuja and Ramanda, and Islamic mysticism represented by Sufism.

Consider this one: Christians might think that the dynamics of grace and faith in human salvation could only be worked out in Christianity — until they learn, for example, about the intricate, debates between the «cat doctrine» and the «monkey doctrine» in Bhakti Hinduism.

If one were to try to say which of the variant Hindu strands were combined with varying Moslem strands, he would be most nearly correct, in the author's opinion, in saying that Sikhism represents a flowing together of the bhakti Hindu faith of Ramanuja and Ramanda, and Islamic mysticism represented by Sufism.

Bhakti Hinduism is devotional Hinduism which finds salvation, not through works, as in the Vedas, not through knowledge, as in philosophic Hinduism, but in faith, love, loyalty or devotion to a personal divinity.

It is present in popular forms that are similar to Eastern Bhakti and Amida Buddha faiths.

It's very prominent in Sufi poetry and in the songs of the Bhakti branch of Hinduism which emphasises our relationship with God.

For example, in Christianity the primary sacrament is Jesus as the Christ, whereas Hindu bhakti might choose Krishna or Kali or numerous other deities.

One may include the emergence of Buddhism and the Bhakti movement in this tradition.

Although the conceptions of the fatherhood of God and of bhakti were indigenous to India, they received an immense impetus owing to the belief of Christian communities reacting upon the medieval Bhagavata reformers of the South.

Grierson is very emphatic about Christian Influence on Bhakti tradition in South India in the medieval period.

In his article on «Bhakti Marga,» in Hastings» Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics he mentions that «in the year AD 639 the famous Indian king Siladitya of Kanauj, a patron of the Bhagavatas, received a party of Syrian Christians, headed by the missionary Alopen, at his court.»

Bhakti doctrine is pre-Christian in origin and not a product of Christian influence.

Salvation is achieved through Bhakti and Bhakti leads to union with the divine.

George A. Grierson mentions the possibility of a Christian encounter with Hindu Bhakti tradition in North India in the sixth century.

Grierson sees some influence of Islam (Sufism) also in Bhakti revival.

For example, speaking of development of Bhakti in Saivism in Tamil Nadu, Stephen Neill says, «The sober verdict of historical judgement must be that any such Christian influence in Tamil literature is unlikely.»

But its development in South India in the early middle ages was qualitatively different from the Bhakti of earlier Hindu tradition.

Hinduism had long been regarded as a confused and bizarre polytheism until study of the texts clarified the energy with which Indian theology comprehended the significant absence of duality, the unity of the divine beings, and the inwardness with which Indian Bhakti mysticism embraced the redeeming favor of the one savior - god.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

This, as indeed the attitude toward the Buddha throughout the Sutra, is that of Bhakti - loving faith or devotion, much as is found in the Gita, for Krishna, and in the Bhakti cult generally.

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.

If you're there, I would pick up the decaf unsweetened Bhakti concentrate.

There is a great story and mission behind Bhakti Chai and we had so much fun meeting founder and CEO Brooke and touring the facility.

4) The Bhakti Chai brewery started out with concentrates and later moved to the drinkables that I'm more familiar with.

You can find the Bhakti line of products in Sprouts stores.

1) I knew about Bhakti Chai before, but I didn't realize the facility would be called a brewery.