what were the effects of bhakti movement
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Bhakti movement was that the followers of the Bhakti movement rejected the caste distinction. They began to mix together on the basis of equality. They took their meals together from the common kitchen. The movement tried to loosen the bond of caste.
Promotion of regional languages of the common people:
In place of Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian, the Bhakti saints preached through the medium of local languages which could be understood very easily.
This movement saw the emergence of various languages like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali
These were earlier used only by common masses but with the preachings by saints through these languages, they gained prominence and their stature got raised and gradually got acceptance by people from higher classes and castes.
Negative Impact of the Bhakti Movement on the Medieval Indian Society:
The Bhakti movement succeeded to a very small extent in realizing its two-fold objective e. bringing about reforms in Hinduism and developing harmonious relations between the Hindus and the Muslims.
Neither the Turko-Afghan rulers nor the Muslim public accepted the Rama-Sita or Radha-Krishna cult.
It is also perhaps far-fetched to say that Akbar’s broad outlook was on account of the impact of the Bhakti movement.
The movement further divided the Hindu society.
It also gave rise to a new form superstitions in Indian society: Tantra.
Development of tantra school was an offshoot of Bhakti.
By uttering magical words (mantra) and making various kinds of mystic gestures, it was believed that one could attain the desires as well as gain supernatural powers.
The Bhakti saints taught universal toleration and brought about a revolution in the social structure of the society. All the saints loved humanity and were devoted to God. But their disciples failed to rise above personal bias and created sects and subsects. While the Bhakti Movement of this era reflected popular aspirations, however, it would be wrong to describe these movements as exclusively mass movements. Even though all the saints taught the same truth, medieval India failed to attain cultural unity. As a result, the Indian society came to be divided into number of new cults based on orthodoxy.
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