* Bhakti Vikasa Swami, " Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava ".

Fulta was the birthplace of Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj in 1913.

Elder Vaishnavas from different missions, from local preachers throughout Central Europe to Srila Bhakti Vaibhava Puri Maharaj himself, are frequently invited to speak.

The Madhya-lila details Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sannyasa pastimes ; the life of Madhavendra Puri ; a philosophical conversation with the Advaitin scholar Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya ( wherein the supremacy of bhakti is promoted by Mahaprabhu against the arguments of impersonal advaita ); Caitanya ’ s pilgrimage to South India ; examples of the daily and annual activities of Caitanya and his devotees during the Ratha-yatra festival of Jagannatha near the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Orissa ; their observance of other festivities ; and his detailed instructions on the process of Bhakti Yoga to both Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami.

Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj ( b. 1922 ) is a prominent poet Saint of modern times, in the path of Bhakti Marg, the path of love or devotion to God.

Other texts referred to by Swamis Muktananda and Chidvilasananda include Jnaneshwari, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Bhakti Sutras of Narada, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and poet saints such as Kabir and Tukaram Maharaj.

The devotionalist Bhakti movement originates in South India in the Early Middle Ages, and by the Late Middle Ages spread throughout the subcontinent, giving rise to Sant Mat and Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

Bhakti Tirtha Swami died June 27, 2005, of complications from melanoma, at Gita Nagari, the Gaudiya Vaishnava community in central Pennsylvania.

Bhakti Chaitanya Swami ( born 14 August 1951 in Auckland, New Zealand ) is a Gaudiya Vaishnava swami and a religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( also known as the Hare Krishna movement or ISKCON ).

The BBT publishes the Bhagavad Gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Isopanishad, Narada Bhakti Sutra, and ( from the Gaudiya devotional tradition ) the Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, and numerous other books.

The Vaishnava Bhakti Schools of Yoga define samādhi as " complete absorption into the object of one's love ( Krishna ).

Sri Krishna Chaitanya was a notable proponent for the Vaishnava school of Bhakti yoga ( meaning loving devotion to Krishna ), based on the philosophy of the Bhagavata Purana and Bhagavad Gita.

The Bhakti movement is a Hindu religious movement in which the main spiritual practice is loving devotion among the Shaivite and Vaishnava saints.

His influence was profound, and he is one of the fathers of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement.

Great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Karnataka like Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa, Raghavendra Swami and many others were influenced by Dvaita traditions.

The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Maha Mantra (" Great Mantra "), is a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra which first appeared in the Kali-Santarana Upanishad, and which from the 15th century rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

In the Vaishnava tradition he is held in special reverence for his chanting and singing of the names Hari and Narayana and his promoting of the process of devotional service, known as bhakti yoga as explained within the text accredited to Narada himself, known as the Narada Bhakti Sutra.

The Vaishnava Bhakti traditions speak of five different moods, referred to as bhāvas — different attitudes that a devotee can take up to express his love for God.

In Hinduism specifically the name gopi ( sometimes gopika ) is used more commonly to refer to the group of cow herding girls famous within Vaishnava Theology for their unconditional devotion ( Bhakti ) to Krishna as described in the stories of Bhagavata Purana and other Puranic literatures.

Scholarly consensus holds that the text was completed no later than around 1000 CE, when it is mentioned by al Biruni and quoted by Abhinavagupta ; the earliest suggestions of it are the composition of the Vishnu Purana and Harivamsa, and the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in South India, which limit its composition to after 500 CE.

Great leaders of the Vaishnava Bhakti movement in Karnataka, Purandara Dasa and Kanaka Dasa for example, were strong proponents of the Dvaita tradition.

Together with the twelve Vaishnava Alvars, the Nayanars are sometimes accounted South India's 75 Apostles of Bhakti because of their importance in the rise of the Hindu Bhakti movement.

Vaishnava sects maintain that attaining knowledge of Brahman and identification of Atman with Brahman is an intermediate stage of self-realization, and only Bhakti Yoga can lead to the next step of Paramatman realization as the indwelling God, ultimately leading up to liberation ( Mukti ) by God-realization.

On March 13, 1979 during Gaura-purnima festival at New Vrindaban, he was initiated into the Vaishnava sannyasa order of renunciation by Kirtanananda Swami and given the name Bhakti Tirtha Swami.

Bhakti Charu Swami is a Vaishnava swami and a religious leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ).

In addition, the college offers courses on the study of sastra, including the Bhakti Sastri certificate administered by the Vaishnava Training and Education organisation and the ISKCON Examination Board, as well as the Certificate in Bhakti Yoga Studies.

Guru Bhakti ( literally " devotion to the guru ") is considered important in many schools and sects.

The Nirgun School of Bhakti Poetry was also tremendously secular in nature and its propounders like Kabir and Guru Nanak had a large number of followers irrespective of caste or religion.

The Vadakalai Guru Shri Vedanta Desika emphasises the practise of the three yogas in his work Rahasya Trayasarah, where he describes Karma and Jnana yogas to be pre-requisites of Bhakti yoga.

Shortly after the Bhakti movement, Guru Nanak, the first Guru of Sikhs also preached the message of equality between men and women.

In 1987 Bhakti Charu Swami became a member of the Governing Body Commission and an initiating ISKCON Guru.

# Sri Bhakti Lakshmi Narasimha Temple, London, United Kingdom ( website )

* Bhakti Schools of Vedanta, by Swami Tapasyananda, available at Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai.

* Bhakti Tirtha Swami Reflections on Sacred Teachings Volume I: Sri Siksastaka.

* Bhakti Tirtha Swami Reflections on Sacred Teachings Volume IV: Sri Isopanisad.

In February 2006, Bhakti Charu Swami built a temple with three huge altars for the worship of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan and Sri Sri Krishna Balaram.

In the schools of Bhakti Yoga, the devotees who worship Vishnu or Krishna are particularly keen on ahimsa.

One such singer who has merged the Bhakti sangeet tradition of India with the western non-India music is Krishna Das and sells music records of his musical sadhana.

The reciprocal love between Radha ( the supreme lover ) and Krishna ( God as the Supremely Loved ) is the subject of many poetic compositions in India such as the Gita Govinda and Hari Bhakti Shuddhodhaya.

Upon this divine intervention, Mother Yashoda faints only to be revived by Lord Krishna and attended by Sage Narada, who explains to her about Krishna's Life., Krishna stealing the butter, Krishna tied to mortar especially in couplets written by poet-saint Surdas, where her deep affection for Krishna becomes an epitome of ' Vatsalya Prema ', Mother's Love and even ' Vatsalya Bhakti ’, Mother's Devotion ,.

While many of the Bhakti mystics focused their attention on Krishna or Rama, it did not necessarily mean that the sect of Shiva was marginalized.

Aishwaryamaya Bhakti is revealed in the abode of queens and kingdom of Krishna in Dwaraka.

This was also the age of tremendous integration between the Hindu and the Islamic elements in the Arts with the advent of many Muslim Bhakti poets like Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana who was a court poet to Mughal emperor Akbar and was a great devotee of Krishna.

The Saguna School of the Bhakti Yug split into two schools ( Rama bhakti and Krishna bhakti ) somewhere in the interregnum of the Bhakti and the Reeti Eras.

Although most Reeti works were outwordly related to Krishna Bhakti, their emphasis had changed from total devotion to the supreme being to the

He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of the Hindu deity Krishna and his consort, Radha, and is considered an important text in the Bhakti movement of Hinduism.

Before the rise of Khari boli, the literary dialects of Hindi were the ones adopted by the Bhakti saints: Braj Bhasha ( Krishna devotees ), Awadhi ( adopted by the Rama devotees ) and Maithili ( Vaishnavites of Bihar ).

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa contains apparent references to the South Indian Alvar saints and it makes a post factum prophecy of the spread of Vishnu worship in Tamil country ( BP XI. 5. 38 – 40 ); these facts, along with its emphasis on " emotional Bhakti to Krishna " and the " Advaita philosophy of Sankara ", lead many scholars to trace its origins to South India.

Many of the bhakti teachings in the Bhāgavata are presented as yogic activities — meditating on the lila of Krishna ; hearing and singing about Vishnu / Krishna ; remembering, serving, and worshiping him ; dedicating all of one's actions to him — all are among nine activities of Bhakti Yoga taught in the Bhāgavata.

While classical yoga attempts to shut down the mind and senses, the Bhakti Yoga in the Bhāgavata teaches that the focus of the mind is transformed by filling the mind with thoughts of Krishna.