Additionally, the Yoga Philosophy is one of six Indiandarshan(“view”or philosophy) and is most closely aligned with Samkhya, which is referred to in the Bhagavad Gita (“Song of the Lord”) as Samkhya Yoga or“The Path of Knowledge”. According to Krishna (in theGita), there are severa...
Chaitanya was a Hindu mystic whose mode of worshipping the god Krishna with ecstatic song and dance had a profound effect on Vaishnavism in Bengal. The son of a Brahman, he grew up in an atmosphere of piety and affection. He received a thorough education
Bhaktiarose in South India in the 7th to 10th centuries in poems that theAlvarsand theNayanarscomposed inTamilto the godsVishnuandShiva, respectively. Drawing on earlier Tamilseculartraditions of erotic poetry as well as royal traditions,bhaktipoets applied to the god what would usually be said of...
These saints, known as Bhaktas, hailed from different regions of India and composed devotional hymns in various languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati. Some of the prominent Bhakti saints include Mirabai, Surdas, Kabir, Tulsidas, and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. They spread the message ...
Karen Pechilis Prentiss, in her work on Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta, talks of ‘[b]hakti’s pos-itive valuation of action in the world’ as ‘a constitutive premise of bhakti’s thesis on embodiment’ and, additionally, of ‘two competing world views in bhakti: the perspective of renunciation...
As Chakravarti Ram-Prasad reminds us in his careful analysis of gender in the theopoetics of Tamil S´rivais.n. ava bhakti poetry, "what we are looking at is how a human being is being gendered, always already and yet also by choice. We can neither start with a contrast between the ...