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depiction of beauty and truth of this world, Bhakti poetry attains its highest point. Bhakti teachers expounded this- worldly reality. against the vedantic view of illusion; Bhakti poets made various human feeling and many-faceted human relationships the very. essence of the relation between the deity and the devotee.
the ragaḷegaḷu played a pivotal role in the development of devotional literature in Kannada and for more than one reason. The most obvious of these is thematic: the Ragaḷegaḷu introduced for the first time in written Kannada a dramatic universe populated by figures from different strands of society, including those traditionally considered marginal, and organized their social world ...
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An important change during the Bhakti "devotion" period starting in the 12th century was the decline of court literature and the rise in popularity of shorter genres such as the vachana and kirthane, forms that were more accessible to the common man.
According to K.S. Narayanachar, "Bhakti" is "living for God and living in God, in thought, emotion, and action." This definition comes from the greatest traditions of intellectual and religious thinking in India. Sage Yajnavalkya defines God-Union, or Sayujya as it is known in the Vedic tradition, as "a full experience of union between the ...
While tracing the development of Bhakti movement in India, Avadesh Kumar Singh points out that the bhakti in the Gita is jnana bhakti (intellectual devotion). He says: ‘The Narada-Bhakti-Sutra interpreted the jnana-bhakti of the Gita in formulaic form without losing sight of its various aspects.
- K Damodar Rao, Madabhushanam Rajagopalacharya
- 2017
Another important Kannada figure in the bhakti movement was Madhvacharya (c. 12-13th centuries), a great and prolific scholar of Vedanta, who promoted the theology of dualism (Dvaita Vedanta). Similarly, the Bhakti movement in Odisha (known as Jñanamisrita bhakti or Dadhya Bhakti) also began in the 12th century.
Dasa Sahitya ( Kannada: ದಾಸ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is a genre of literature of the bhakti movement composed by devotees in honor of Vishnu or one of his avatars. Dasa is literally servant in Kannada and sahitya is literature. Haridasas ("servants of God") were preachers of bhakti to Vishnu or one of his avatars. The bhakti literature of ...
