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Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Who wrote the Shikshashtakam?

  1. Vallabhacharya

  2. Nityananda

  3. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  4. Buddha
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wrote a series of verses known as the Shikshashtakam, or "eight verses of instruction which are considered to contain the complete philosophy of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in condensed form. He requested six saints and theologians among his followers to systematize the Gaudiya Vaishnava theology in their own writings.

Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Who among the following was known as a "Nirguna" reformer?

  1. Chaitanya

  2. Surdas

  3. Kabir

  4. Tulsidas
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Saint Kabir believed in formless supreme God. He protested the rituals like idol worship, offering namaz, taking the holy dip in rivers etc. His teachings were in short poems which are collected in the Bijaka. He gave stress on the purity of soul. His followers are known as Kabirpnathi.

Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Samarth Guru Swami Ramdas's scripture 'Dasbodh' is in the form of a _______.

  1. Teacher-pupil dialect

  2. Father-son dialect

  3. Mother-son dialect

  4. Father-mother dialect
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Shrimad Dasbodh is a classical 17th century Hindu Advaita Vedanta spiritual text. It was orally narrated by saint Samarth Ramdas, to his disciple Kalyan Swami.

Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Who is called the first poet of deprived class of India?

  1. Chokhamela

  2. Samanth Guru Swami Ramdas

  3. Chitanya Mahaprabhu

  4. Guru Nanak
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Chokhamela was poet born in Maharashtra, India in the 14th century. He belonged to the Mahar caste, considered "untouchable" in India in that era. He was the first poet and saint from deprived class.

Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Who among the following wrote the Kural, which deals with many aspects of life and religion?

  1. Thiruvalluvar

  2. Ayaikar

  3. Shankracharya

  4. Rishi Agasta
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The Tirukkural or Thirukkural or shortly the Kural is a classic Tamil text consisting of 1,330 couplets or Kurals, dealing with the everyday virtues of an individual. It was written by Thiruvalluvar.

Multiple choice history devotion towards the almighty bhakti movement bhakti movement : south and north india bhakti saints

Select the correct statement(s) is/are related to the Kabir.
I. He was the disciple Ramananda and the most liberal among medieval Indian reformers.
II. He was possibly a contemporary of Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughlaq (1489-1517).

  1. I only

  2. II only

  3. Both I and II

  4. Neither I nor II
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Saint Kabir was the prominent preacher of Nirgun Bhakti. He was one of the disciples of Ramananda who was the saint of Vaishnava tradition. He advocated that the devotional marg is available to all the people without distinction of caste, gender, and religion. The greatest work of Kabir is known as Bijak, seeds of his teachings. He was a contemporary of Lodi sultan Sikandar Lodi.