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Analyze the role of women saints in the Bhakti movement.
Analyse the role of women saints in Bhakti Movement ? Answer : Bhakti movement was the socio – religious movement in Indian history, that was rising in early medieval period. The main motive of this movement was love and devotion towards God and to identify God. Although this concept was not new becRead more
Analyse the role of women saints in Bhakti Movement ?
Answer : Bhakti movement was the socio – religious movement in Indian history, that was rising in early medieval period. The main motive of this movement was love and devotion towards God and to identify God.
Although this concept was not new because it’s traces we can find in Vedas.
The famous leaders of this period are Nanak,Kabir Vallabhacharya.
FEATURES OF BHAKTI MOVEMENT:
• Equality: There was no differentiation in caste.
• Monotheism: They believed that there is only one God with different names.
• Bhakti, devotion, and love were considered as the sole essence of salvation.
• Strictly objectifying blind faith, spiritual,superstition and ceremonies.
The famous women saints of this period are:
• Andal(from South India) devotee of Vishnu.
Meerabai(devotee of Krishna) , Ammaiyar, Jana Bai etc.
ROLE OF WOMEN’ IN BHAKTI MOVEMENT:
1. They broke the lineage of patriarchal society and the concept of gender prejudice, they emerged from the different region of the country as a flourishing Bhakti movement of medieval Era.
2. They took part in singing poems, chanting mantras, songs about life.
3. They broke the stereotype of restricting to enter a particular place. This led to positive reform in society.
4. They left their children, family and travelled ways to reach God. They only follow the Bhakti movement and sacrificed their domestic life , discarded marriage life.
(Meerabai is the most prominent example of women sacrificing their household to worship lord Krishna.)
CONCLUSION :
The Bhakti movement was completely different fir men and women. Therefore this movement developed the roots of feminism in India. They unfolded all the societal norms that bound women’s.
They displayed the strength of women’s and inspired others also.
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