What are the features of bakthi movement
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Features of Bhakti movement
1. The concept of Bhakti means singleminded devotion to one God. The object of the devotee’s adoration is to secure
the grace of God for the sake of aslvation.
2. The Bhakti cult discarded the rituals and sacrifices as modes of worship and instend emphasis ed the purity of reart and mind, humanism and devation as the simple way to realisation of God.
3. The Bhakti movement was essentially monotheistic and the devotees worshipped one personal God, who
could either have form (saguna) or be formless (nirguna). The followers of the former, knowh as vaishhavas, were
futher subdivided into of Krishna – both incarnations of Vishnu – as their personal God, respectively. The followers
of Nirguna Bhakti discarded idol worship. They said that, God is omnipresent and resides within the heart of man.
4. On the philosophical side, the Saguna and Nirguna both believed in the Upanishadic philosophy of advaita,
with minor variation suggested by various Bhakti saints.
5. The Bhakti saints of North as well as South India regarded knowledge (jana) as a consitituent of bhakti. Since, that
knowledge could be gained through a teacher of guru, the Bhakti movement greatly emphasised securing true
knowledge form a guru.