BHAKTI MOVEMENT QUIZ

Who wrote a commentry of Bhagvat Gita called Gnaneswari?

Both A & B

Namadev

Gnandeva

Ekanath

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Sankardeva was a great bhakti saint of

Assam

Gujarat

Bengal

Maharashtra

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Which of the following are the basis tenants of Bhakti Movement?

Ideas were the Bhakti movement—devotion to God with the help of a priest. Bhakti to God was accepted as damnation

Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation

Spiritual sessions in meeting places known as zawiyas, khanqahs, or tekke

Described as the interiorization, and intensification of human faith and practice

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Which Bhakti Saints known as Sri Gauranga, was a popular Vaishnava saint and reformer from Bengal?

Sankaracharya

Kabir

Mirabai

Chaitanya

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The earliest Sufi order to arrive in India was

Naqshbandi

Chisti

Suhrawardy

Qadiri

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Which statement is not the advocacy of Nirguna Saints?

None of these

It is the concept of a formless God, which has no attributes or quality

It conceived as Ishvara, the personal and purely spiritual aspect of godhead, beyond all names and forms (nama-rupa), and is to be apprehended only by inner (mystical) experience

It advocated the worshiped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna

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Which of the following statement (s) is/are not correct about Bhagavatism and Krishna Cult (Bhakti Cult)?I. Bhagavatism is a branch of Vaishnavism, where the devotees worship the various avatars of Lord Vishnu.II. The origin of Bhagavatism or Vaishnavism has been sought in the Upanishadic period because in the 'Chandogya Upanishad' Krishna is described as a disciple of the sage Ghora

Only II

Both I & II

Only I

Neither I nor II

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Select the correct order

Mirabai, Kabir Nizamuddin Auliya, Tulsidas

Nizamuddin Auliya, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas

Kabir, Nizamuddin Auliya, Tulsidas, Mirabai

Tulsidas, Mirabai, Kabir, Nizamuddin Auliya

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What is meant by a 'Pir' in the Sufi tradition?

The greatest of all Sufi saints

The Supreme God

The orthodox teacher who contests the Sufi beliefs

The Guru of the Sufis

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Which Bhakti Saints venerated in Sikhism, as well as Hindu warrior-ascetic traditions such as the Dadupanthis and the Niranjani Sampraday that emerged in north India during the Islamic rule?

Mirabai

Ramananda

Namdeva

Eknath

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