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BHAKTI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Hinduism) loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and nirvana; open to all persons independent of caste or sex
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bhakti" is a kind of...):
devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))
Domain category:
Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
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