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2 unusual facts about bhakti


1390s in poetry

Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (died 1518), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India

1518 in poetry

Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (born 1398 or 1440), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India


Bhakti Hridaya Bon Swami

In 1942, after the disappearance of his Guru, Srila Sarasvati Prabhupada, Swami Bon voted for Swami Bhakti Vilas Tirtha to be the next Acharya of the Gaudiya Math.

Bhakti Hridaya Bon also known as Swami Bon was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of the Bhakti marg, specifically of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Gaudiya Vaishnava theology.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami

In one issue we reported Bhakti-tirtha's visit to the Zambian statehouse, where he had dinner with the country's president, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda.

Boni Avibus

She's theatrical performances for eventually making her known by some cultural observer and local theater communities whom recommended her to bring culture speech at anniversary of Indonesia Theater Federation 2008 in Graha Bhakti Budaya Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta and introduce her to the bureaucrats, cultural observer and national artists.

Brihad Bhagavatamrita

While Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa sets out guidance for Vaishnava behavior and ritual, Brihad-bhagavatamrita contains an analysis of the teachings of Chaitanya from an ontological and metaphysical perspective.

Eastern philosophy

Many streams of thought flow from the six Vedic/Hindu schools, Bhakti sects and Tantra Agamic schools into the one ocean of Hinduism, the first of the Dharma religions.

Guruvayurappan

After the tenth verse, Bhattatiri realised that the boy was the Lord himself, and understood that Poonthanam's bhakti was more pleasing to the Lord than his own superior knowledge of Vibhakti (Sanskrit grammar) and learning.

Haridas

Haridasa, South Indian (Kannada) devotional bhakti movement

Hindi

Hindi literature is broadly divided into four prominent forms or styles, being Bhakti (devotional – Kabir, Raskhan); Shringar (beauty – Keshav, Bihari); Virgatha (extolling brave warriors); and Adhunik (modern).

History of Bankura district

There is mention in two Vaishnava works, Prem-vilasa of Nityananda Das (alias Balaram Das) and Bhakti Ratnakara of Narahari Chakrabarti, about Srinivasa and other bhaktas (devotees) being robbed by Bir Hambir, when they were travelling from Vrindavan to Gaur with a number of Vaishanava manuscripts.

Jai Durga Mitra Mandal

Jai Durga Mitra Mandal is a social & cultural group formed to preserve the culture of India and spread Bhakti (Devotion), by celebrating Indian festivals publicly like Ganesh Utsav & Navratri Utsav.

Krishnaism

Friedhelm Hardy in his "Viraha-bhakti" analyses the history of Krishnaism, specifically all pre-11th-century sources starting with the stories of Krishna and the gopi, and Mayon mysticism of the Vaishnava Tamil saints, Sangam Tamil literature and Alvars' Krishna-centered devotion in the rasa of the emotional union and the dating and history of the Bhagavata Purana.

Ramananda

Ramananda for the most part of his life lived in the holy city of Varanasi, and was a pioneer of the Bhakti movement, as well as a social reformer in Northern India.

Robert Charles Zaehner

(c) the bhakti mysticism of love, per the commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Ramanuja.

Sadguru Hambir Baba

The Atman in the form Chidakash ( Pure Consciousness) in our brain is the 'True God', to meditate upon Soham while breathing is True Bhakti which God likes and is called Great (Thor in Marathi by Sant Tukaram).

Sambandar

He is one of the most prominent of the sixty-three Nayanars, Tamil Saiva bhakti saints who lived between the sixth and the tenth centuries CE.

Sarveswara

Sarveswara Satakam Shaiva Bhakti Satakam, a collection of Telugu poems written by Yathavakkula Annamayya.

Swami Abhayananda

I teach four classes of philosophy-the Karma Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Karma Yoga), which is the philosophy of actions; the Bhakti Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Bhakti Yoga, the philosophy of devotion and love; the Rajah Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Raja Yoga), a physiological and psychological man, and the Gnana Loga(reporter might have mispelt for Jnana Yoga, or philosophy.


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