The Bhakti Movement
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. Th...