{"id":8589,"date":"2024-01-07T20:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2024-01-07T20:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T15:01:23","slug":"had-anhad-bhakti-movement-and-the-boundless-love-of-indias-poet-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2024\/01\/07\/had-anhad-bhakti-movement-and-the-boundless-love-of-indias-poet-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Had Anhad: Bhakti Movement and the Boundless Love of India’s Poet-Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This appeared in ‘splainer in November<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heart of India’s rich cultural tapestry is woven with the vibrant threads of spirituality, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Bhakti movement. A surge of devotional fervour that swept through the subcontinent from the 11th to the 18th centuries, Bhakti inspired countless poet-saints to express their profound love for the divine through their verses. Their poetry, imbued with passion, simplicity, and directness, captured the essence of spirituality and resonated deeply with the populace. For them, God wasn\u2019t some abstraction. S\/He was real\u2014their friend, their confidant, and lover. Across the length and breadth of India, poets and mystics sang out their love for God.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Tulsidas wrote \u2018Thumak Chalat Ramachandra<\/a>\u2019, it is almost like he is seeing Baby Rama learning to walk, with his anklets making a tinkling noise. There are many variants of this song, the most famous being the rendition by\u00a0DV Paluskar<\/a>, in Raga Jaijaiwanti. But a lovely variant is this version by\u00a0Chhannulal Mishra<\/a>\u00a0in Raga Mishra Bilawal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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