{"id":440,"date":"2019-10-24T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/edwin-bryant\/?page_id=440"},"modified":"2019-10-24T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T01:50:07","slug":"bhakti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/edwin-bryant\/bhakti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhakti and the Krishna Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"main\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<div style=\"float:left;padding-right:10px\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/edwin-bryant\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/169\/2019\/10\/templekrishna.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Hinduism in India is essentially <em>bhakti<\/em>: traditionally, Indians have not imbibed the yogic world view from dense philosophical texts like the <em>Yoga Sutras<\/em>, but from the colorful and popular narratives of <em>yoga<\/em> tales derived from a genre of texts called the <em>Puranas<\/em>.  It is in these texts that <em>bhakti yoga<\/em>, the path of devotion, is outlined and exemplified, and it is through these <em>Puranic<\/em> tales and legends percolating across the Indian subcontinent since well before the common era that Hinduism has spread and remained vibrant across the centuries (and where the source material for Hindu poetry, song, architecture, drama, dance and other aesthetic traditions is to be found).   From the 18 \u2018great\u2019 <em>Puranas<\/em>, the <em>Srimad Bhagavata Purana<\/em>, literally \u2018the Beautiful Legend of God,\u2019 is by far the most important, and, indeed, one of the two most important texts in Hinduism, along with the <em>Ramayana<\/em>, in terms of \u201con the ground Hinduism\u201d (rather than its exported forms in the West).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe <em>Bhagavata Purana<\/em> is focused exclusively on <em>Isvara pranidhana<\/em> \u2013 the various modes of <em>bhakti<\/em>, devotion, to <em>Isvara<\/em>, God, specifically, Narayana\/Vishnu\/Krishna.  It is the principal Sanskrit textual source dedicated to the accounts of Lord Vishnu\u2019s incarnations and activities, and to the lives and practices of the most famous <em>yogi<\/em> exemplars who dedicated their lives to seeking and experiencing the ultimate Truths of the individual self and its loving relationship with a personal God.  All the teachings of the <em>Yoga Sutras<\/em> and <em>Gita<\/em> are to be found in these narratives, along with so much more, but in far more developed ways, and embodied in the form of charming and delightful tales that capture the heart and mind, the goal of <em>bhakti<\/em>.  The workshop will consist of a reading of selections of the best known and loved <em>bhakti yoga<\/em> stories and teachings from the <em>Bhagavata Purana,<\/em> focusing on the amazing lives of the best known <em>yogis<\/em> of yore, and of their astonishing yoga practices.  Meditation on devotional <em>mantras<\/em> is also an option as part of the workshop.<br \/>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinduism in India is essentially bhakti: traditionally, Indians have not imbibed the yogic world view from dense philosophical texts like the Yoga Sutras, but from the colorful and popular narratives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/edwin-bryant\/bhakti\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":652,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-440","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bhakti and the Krishna Tradition - Edwin Bryant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/edwin-bryant\/bhakti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bhakti and the Krishna Tradition - Edwin Bryant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hinduism in India is essentially bhakti: traditionally, Indians have not imbibed the yogic world view from dense philosophical texts like the Yoga Sutras, but from the colorful and popular narratives &hellip; 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