In South India, the Bhakti movement started in response to these factors. Bhakti poets had no problem with physical representations of God. They rejected all markers of differentiation such as caste.

Ramanujacharya was a saint from South India, but his work had a great influence on the rest of India. Northern India was slower to catch on the Bhakti movement; the first signs emerged only with ...

CHENNAI: In the 7th and 8th centuries, the ancient hymns of Thevaram were recited by priests and filled the temples of Shiva in south India. Today, they are a p ...

in India and elsewhere. Instead, he chose Bhakti of nirakar (formless) God while earning livelihood through his hereditary leatherwork as a middle path to protest against the caste-based system of ...

He said followers of ISKCON, a global bhakti movement founded on the Bhagavad Gita teachings, across the world are connected to each other by their devotion to Lord Krishna.