Bhakti
भक्ति
BHUCK-tee
Bhakti (भक्ति) is a Sanskrit-origin word used in Indian English, meaning loving devotion to a personal god — a major strand of Hindu religious practice. In crosswords it is the 6-letter answer BHAKTI (6).
Meaning & usage
Bhakti is the path of devotion in Hinduism, contrasted with paths of knowledge (jnana) and action (karma). The Bhakti movement, which spread across India from roughly the 7th to the 17th centuries, produced an explosion of vernacular devotional poetry — Mirabai in Rajasthani, Kabir in Hindi, Tukaram in Marathi, Nammalvar in Tamil — that bypassed Sanskrit and the priesthood and put god into the language of the street.
In a sentence
Her grandmother sang Mirabai's bhakti poems every evening.
Common spelling variants
- Bhakthi
Bhakti is the English spelling used in MG Mini puzzles.
Bhakti as a crossword answer
Bhakti is a 6-letter answer. A typical clue:
“Loving devotion to a personal god — a major strand of Hindu religious practice” (6)
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