Bhakti

Concept · 2 readings

Bhakti is a loving relation to the divine, and particular accounts of it differ. How do understanding and practice belong to devotion? The different teachings do not share one history or meaning.

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Guided course · Module 7 · Lesson 40
Devotion, equality and religious practice
Kabir and Guru Nanak criticize words and signs that stand in for devotion. How can communal practice express equality without proving that inequality has disappeared?
Guided course · Module 7 · Lesson 37
Self and ultimate reality: two Vedānta accounts
Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja read the same scriptural words about self and brahman in different ways, and give different accounts of unity, difference and the knowledge that liberates.

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Devotion, equality and religious practice

Self and ultimate reality: two Vedānta accounts