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The early medical period in India witnessed the beginning of two powerful religious movements-the BHAKTHI MOVEMENT and the SUFI MOVEMENT. These movements had a profound effect on society and the way religion would be practised hereafter. What were the Bhakthi and Sifi movements and why we're they so successful?
By the 7th century AD, people had started worshipping a variety of gods-each region and each community had its favourite deity. The control the pries had over the practise of religion appears to have increased. They seem to have encouraged superstition in society. For example, people were told by the priest that if they pulled the ratha or chariot of Lord Jagnnath of Puri and we're crushed by the wheels of the massive chariot, they could avoid 14 rebirths on Earth.
The rituals connected with workship also ecame more and more complicated. The ordinary people could no longer workship god directly. They had to ask a priest to do so for them. Many customs which were cruel to people of 'lower' castes and women received the sanction of religion.
In response to such religious and social oppression, new ways of thinking emerged that questioned the existing religious practises. Religious thinkers held debates on the true nature of religion and it's meaning. They taught people that there was only one god; and this god could be realised only through Devotion or Bhakthi.
Written by Sarath Ramakrishna
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