What is Nirguna Bhakti ?
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Nirguna bhakti is devotion to and worship of the Divine as formless. The term comes from the Sanskrit, nir, a prefix meaning “without”; guna, meaning “qualities” or “properties,” and bhakti, which means “devotion” or “faithfulness.”
Some scholars describe nirguna bhakti as the highest form of bhakti. It is devotion that lacks any desire for personal gain and is not motivated by any of the three gunas – sattva (purity, harmony, goodness), rajas (passion, driven, egoistic) and tamas (negative, disorder, lethargy).
Depending on the tradition or school of Hinduism, bhakti is categorized in many ways, often as pairs of opposites. Nirguna bhakti is an unconditional devotion to God in an unmanifested form. Its opposite is saguna bhakti, which is worship of and devotion to a manifested deity who takes the form of an idol, an image or an incarnation.
Saguna bhakti is easier to comprehend because the ishta devata, or personal god, is worshiped in a recognizable form. Nirguna bhakti, on the other hand, is devotion to the Absolute -- the divine energy that is the universe and the highest consciousness. The ultimate goal is union with this divine energy.
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Kabir and Ramdas were the great saints of the Nirguna Bhakti Movement . The followers of Nirguna Bhakti sect of the Bhakti Movement believe that God has no definite form or shape . They believe in normal virtues and say that religion does not consist in words .
The main teachings of Nirguna Bhakti are as follow :
- Faith in Guru .
- Belief in one supreme God .
- Self surrender to God .
- Non - belief in caste system , idol worship , ritualism .
- No attachment to any particular language .
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