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Line 11: == Terminology == ~~Bhakti~~helloBhakti is love towards god.The Sanskrit word ''bhakti'' is derived from the verb root ''bhaj-'', which means "to worship, have recourse to, betake onself to" or ''bhañj-,'' which means "to break."<ref name="Cutler" /><ref name="Prentiss">{{cite book\|last=Pechilis Prentiss\|first=Karen\|title=The Embodiment of Bhakti\|publisher=Oxford University Press\|location=US\|year=1999\|page=24\|isbn=978-0-19-512813-0\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vu95WgeUBfEC&pg=PA24}}</ref><ref name="Werner">{{cite book\|last=Werner\|first=Karel\|title=Love Divine: studies in bhakti and devotional mysticism\|publisher= Routledge\|year= 1993\|pages= 168\|isbn= 978-0-7007-0235-0\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYahlaJCLnYC&pg=PA168}}</ref><ref>John Bowker "Bhakti ." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Encyclopedia.com. 16 Oct. 2020 https://www.encyclopedia.com .</ref> The word also means "attachment, devotion to, fondness for, homage, faith or love, worship, piety to something as a spiritual, religious principle or means of salvation".<ref name=monier /><ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=bhakti&direction=SE&script=HK&link=yes&beginning=0 bhakti] Sanskrit English Dictionary, University of Koeln, Germany</ref> The meaning of the term ''Bhakti'' is analogous to but different from [[Kama]]. Kama connotes emotional connection, sometimes with sensual devotion and erotic love. Bhakti, in contrast, is spiritual, a love and devotion to religious concepts or principles, that engages both emotion and intellection.<ref name=karen20>Karen Pechelis (2014), The Embodiment of Bhakti, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN\|978-0195351903}}, pages 19-21</ref> Karen Pechelis states that the word Bhakti should not be understood as uncritical emotion, but as committed engagement.<ref name=karen20 /> She adds that, in the concept of ''bhakti'' in Hinduism, the engagement involves a simultaneous tension between emotion and intellection, "emotion to reaffirm the social context and temporal freedom, intellection to ground the experience in a thoughtful, conscious approach".<ref name=karen20 /> One who practices ''bhakti'' is called a ''bhakta''.<ref>Karen Pechelis (2014), The Embodiment of Bhakti, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN\|978-0195351903}}, page 3</ref>

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