[INDOLOGY] bhakti

Nagaraj Paturi nagarajpaturi at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 06:43:07 UTC 2016


Dear Patrick,

I went to the website you directed us to.

It is an ISKCON activity.

It is well known that ISKCON is based on Goudiya Vaishnava Vedanta which is
one of the Bhakti (centred) schools of Vedanta.

What they are saying here is that GEV is based on their philosophy. Their
philosophy is a school of Vedanta and Vedanta is Vedic. So GEV is based on
Vedic Bhakti Vedanta is not wrong. The word Bhakti Yoga is used here in
that sense. So I don't see anything wrong in the word Vedic here.

The word 'Vedic' is not always used in the sense of ' as in Vedas'. The
word is quite often used in the sense of 'belonging to the lineage of the
cultural/textual complex of which the Vedas are (of course, vital)
part. From the insider's point of view , Vaidika is Veda- aviruddha,
Veda-anuroopa, Veda-anusaari etc. not necessarily Vedochcharita/Vedas'ruta.

It probably would be an interesting study to survey how far the pull for
such cults among people is based on their claims to be Vedic.

For something which is already 'Hindu' , the claim of Vedic, I guess, does
not add any new value.

For that matter , it is intriguing to see that pamphlets are distributed in
India, (at least here in the Telugu region) claiming that Jesus is in the
Vedas. 'Mohammed in the Vedas' is also one of the internet-popular themes.
It is interesting to study the motives behind such claims.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:39 AM, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Is this the first mention of the term 'bhakti' ?
>
> yasya deve parā *bhaktir* yathā deve tathā gurau /
> tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ prakāśante mahātmanaḥ //
> SvetUp_6.23 //
>
>
>  I ask this question as I'm trying to understand the following statement:
>
>
>
> *GEV is based on the sacred Vedic principles of bhakti-yoga. *
>
> http://www.ecovillage.org.in/our-projects#_VEC
>
>
> While 'bhakti' is mentioned at least in the above upanishad, I thought
> 'bhakti yoga' was quite clearly a post-vedic development, and that the
> bhakti movement developed from the 6th century CE. To the devotee this
> statement might seem unproblematic, but to the scholar it appears to
> conceptually and temporally conflate disparate things.
>
>
> As I am certainly not an expert on bhakti I would appreciate
> clarification.
>
>
> I am interested in how organisations operationalise the 'vedic' sign in
> their marketing and promotional material to generate 'authenticity' and
> legitimacy.
>
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Patrick McCartney, PhD
> Fellow
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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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