Noun:

சுயநல நோக்கம் ஏதுமின்றி இறைவனை முழுமையாக வழிபடும் ஒரு பற்றற்றப் போக்கை குறிக்கும் இந்து சமயச் சொல்,

bhakti's Usage Examples:

bhakti yoga or the path of devotion.

The bhakti path winds in a delicate way.

The experience of this aspect is the fruit of bhakti yoga or the path of devotion.

The Lord is to be approached by faith (bhakti) - dis- interested devotion and surrender of self in perfect love, and all actions are to be purified of self-interest in contemplation of Him.

In the older framework of the M ahabharata he appears as a great chieftain and ally of the Pandava brothers; and it is only in the interpolated episode of the Bhagavad-gita that he is identified with Vishnu and becomes the revealer of the doctrine of bhakti or religious devotion.

But the practical end of all his writings is to inculcate bhakti addressed to Rama as the great means of salvation - emancipation from the chain of births and deaths - a salvation which is as free and open to men of the lowest caste as to Brahmans.

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Synonyms:

devotion,

Antonyms:

hate,