Bengal and Orissa Bhakti – Jayadeva, Chaitanya, and the Dance of Divine Love

In the sacred rhythm of India’s BhaktiTransliteration: Bhakti / भक्तिMeaning / Explanation: Devotion; loving surrender to the divine with awareness.Origin: SanskritNote: Bhakti is relationship, not dependence. More tradition, the final crescendo rose in the east — in the lands of…

Hindi Bhakti Poets – The Saints of the Heartland

If Tamil Nadu sang of devotion through the Alwars and Nayanmars, and Karnataka echoed with the vachanas and keerthanas of saints, the plains of North India bloomed with the voices of the Hindi BhaktiTransliteration: Bhakti / भक्तिMeaning / Explanation: Devotion;…