bhakti

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	devotion,
definition	:	(usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) (noun.act)

domain category	:	hindooism, hinduism,
definition	:	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 (noun.cognition)