The Bhakti Movement

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ONE-LINER HISTORY NOTE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS

 

The Bhakti Movement

1.       Love and devotion to one personal God is the basic concept of Bhakti.  

2.      The Alvars or Vaishanava saints and Nayanars or Saivite, saints became the promoters of Bhakti movement in South India.  

3.      Ramanuja, a Vaishana saint of 12th century AD, was born at Sriperumbathur and founded philosophy of Vishistadvaita or qualified monism. Renjith Singh  

4.      The leader of Bhakti movement or Hindu revivalism was Sankaracharya. His philosophy was Advaita or pure monism. He wrote Commentary on Brahmasutra and Upanishad. He founded four matts- Sringeri, Dwaraka, Puri and Badrinath.  

5.      Vallabhacharya promoted the philosophy of Pushtimarga. He was the founder of Sudhadvaita.  

6.      The North India the Bakti movement was promoted by two sects of thought - the Saguna and Nirguna schools.  

7.      Ramanand, born at Prayag preached Vaishnavaism. He was a followers of Ramanuja.  

8.      Kabir (1398 -1458) a nirguna was born near Benaras. His followers started the ‘Kabirpanthis’.  

9.      Tulasi Dasa (1532 - 1623) a worshipper of Rama compossed Ramcharithamanasa in Hindi. His other works are Kavitavali and Gitavali.  

10.    Mirabai (1498 - 1509) a Rajaput princess hailed from the Sisodiya dynasty of Chittoor was a devotee of Lord Krishna. Her lyrics were written in Brijbhasha and in Rajasthani.  

11.      Jnanadeva, Namadeva, Eknatha Tukaram and Samarth Ram Das were the leading Maratha saints of Bhakti movement.  

12.    Jnanadeva founded the Maharashtra Dharma. His famous work ‘Jnaneswari’ is a commendarel on Bhagavatgita.  

13.    Ekanath promoted the custom of singing Kirthana and he composed ‘abhangas’ or typical poems.  

14.    Tukaram a contemporary of Shivaji was the promoter of Maratha nationalism.  

15.   Samarth Ramdas, the spiritual guide of Shivaji, wrote ‘Dasabhodha’.

16.    Sufism  

17.     Mythical movement of the Muslims was known as Suficism.  

18.    Sufi movement first came to India in the wake of Muhammed Ghazni’s invasion in the 11th century.  

19.    Sufi orders are called Silsilahs.  

20.  Chishti Silsilah was founded by Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmir.  

21.    Sufism declined in the 17th Century.

 

 

 

 

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