7. What Should the Bhakti Movement Be? : A Storm of Songs India and the Idea of the Bhakti MovementHawley, John StrattonHawley, John Stratton. A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. Cambridge: Harvard University...
Bhakti (the path of devotion) –focuses on devotion to God Tantra (the path of ecstasy) –focuses on ritual and initiation Hatha (the forceful path) –focuses on energy and movement of the body Modern yoga in the West In the West, the word “yoga” has come to mean a particular style...
The bhakti movement was an utter joke and its egalitarian aims were subverted by Brahmins who retold the stories through a cast based perspective. See this – Bhakti: An Ambivalent Rhetoric / Jayjayanti Banerjee (https://www.academia.edu/9104926/Bhakti_An_Ambivalent_Rhetoric) It never ...
It is said that the full moon in the lunar month of Ashwin (anywhere between late September to mid October) shines the brightest, so Valmiki’s birthday is celebrated on Sharad Poornima. This day marks the ending of the monsoon season and the arrival of autumn (Sharad). The atmosphere s...
“it drops the stuff about contradiction and actually addresses the issues.”) Drawing on J.L. Austin’s theory of speech acts, postmodernists will argue that the reason to make such a claim against truth is its performative dimension. The point, that is, is not what the sentencesays, ...