The Bhagavata Purana is text associated with the Bhakti movement which elaborates the concept of bhakti as found in the Bhagavad Gita. While bhakti as designating a religious path is already a central concept in the Bhagavad Gita, it rises to importance in the medieval history of Hinduism, where the Bhakti movement saw a rapid growth of bhakti beginning in Southern India with the Vaisnava Alvars (6th-9th century CE) and Saiva Nayanars (5th-10th century CE), who spread bhakti poetry and devotion throughout India by the 12th-18th century CE. Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Iṣṭa-devatā (also as Svayam Bhagavan in Gaudiya Vaishnavism).īhakthi can be used of either tradition of Hindu monotheism, Shaivaism or Vaishnavism. It refers to religious devotion in the form of active involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine. In Hinduism and Buddhism, "Bhakti" (also spelled Bhakthi Sanskrit: भक्ति) is a technical term meaning "portion, share", from the root bhaj- "to partake in, to receive one's share".
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