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Category: Religion in India On By Kavita Pandey
Sufism Sufi or Sufism is related to Islam. The Sufis originally drew their ideas from certain verses of the Quran and Hadith i.e. traditions of the prophet. Their difference with orthodox Muslims lay in the fact that while the latter interpreted the Quran and Hadith in a literal way, the Sufis gave … [Read more...] about Sufism
Category: Religion in India On By Deepak Chaturvedi
Sufism The source of Sufism was Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. The Sufi reformers started preaching main thoughts of Islam. Main ideals: According to Sufism, devotion and relinquishment are the ways to reach God. They are against idolatry and believed in one God. In their opinion … [Read more...] about Sufism in India
Category: Religion in India On By Arnab Basu
Bhakti Movement in India The essence of the Bhakti movement is the union of the human soul with supreme being through devotion. The Bhakti movement took off in southern India between the 7th and the 12th centuries A.D., nurtured by Saiva Nayanar and Vaishnava Alwar sects. It became a widespread … [Read more...] about Bhakti Movement in India
Category: History of Ancient India, Religion in India On By Arnab Basu
Buddhism in India Gautama Buddha: Gautama Buddha was the founder of Buddhism in India. Born to the republican state of Kapilavastu in the Terai region of Nepal in 563 B.C, Gautama Buddha was a Kshatriya prince and the founder of Buddhism. At 29, he renounced the material world and took lessons … [Read more...] about Buddhism in India
Category: Religion in India On By Arnab Basu
Right from the days of the Indus Valley Civilisation, the Mother Goddess is worshipped in India as the force behind productivity. But during the period between the Rig-Vedic age till the beginning of the Gupta age, aristocrats were not in favour of worshipping the Mother Goddess. She was popular … [Read more...] about Mother Goddess in Indian Religion