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Bhakti-Sufi Traditions
Question
What were the teachings of Adi Sankara?
Solution
(i) Adi Sankara’s philosophy is called Advaitavada or the doctrine of non-dualism.
(ii) According to Sankara, God and the created world was one. The differences were apparent but not real and arose due to ignorance.
(iii) The way forward to salvation was devoting to God, strengthened by the knowledge that God and the created being were one and the same. This philosophy is called Vedanta. Thus, Sankara upheld the Vedas as the foundation head of the true knowledge.
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Some More Questions From Bhakti-Sufi Traditions Chapter
Read any five of the sources included in this chapter and discuss the social and religious ideas that are expressed in them.
On an outline map of India, plot three major sufi shrines, and three places associated with temples (one each of a form of Vishnu, Shiva and the goddess).
Choose any two of the religious teachers/thinkers/saints mentioned in this chapter, and find out more about their lives and teachings. Prepare a report
about the area and the times in which they lived their major ideas, how we know about them, and why you think they are important.
Find out more about practices of pilgrimage associated with the shrines mentioned in this chapter. Are these pilgrimages still undertaken? When are these shrines visited? Who visits these shrines? Why do they do so? What are the activities associated with these pilgrimages?
Mention the two earliest Bhakti Movements of Tamil Nadu, giving the main difference between them.
Mention two features of the protest movement started by Nayanars and Alvars.
Who led a new religious movement in Karnataka? What were his followers known as?
Give the meaning of Zimina. Who were Zimmis?
Why was Khwaja Muinuddin’s Dargah very popular? Give two reasons.
Why do thousands of devotees visit dargahs of Muslim saints?
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