BHAKTI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bhakti mean? 

• BHAKTI (noun)
  The noun BHAKTI has 1 sense:

1. (Hinduism) loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and nirvana; open to all persons independent of caste or sex

  Familiarity information: BHAKTI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BHAKTI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Hinduism) loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and nirvana; open to all persons independent of caste or sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("bhakti" is a kind of...):

devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))

Domain category:

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)