Important questions and answers related to Bhakti movement

Question 1. Where did the Bhakti movement begin?
Answer: South India.
Question 2. Who is credited with bringing the Bhakti movement in North India from South India?
Answer: Ramananda Ko
Question 3. It is generally the time of medieval religious movement-
Answer – 13th To 16V Shataba till
Question 4. Comes under the departure trilogy-
Answer: Brahmsutra, Geeta and Upanishad.
Question 5. The philosophical theory of Shankaracharya is called-
Answer: Monotheism
Question 6. Where was Guru Nanak born?
Answer: In Talwandi
Question 7. Whose philosophy is called the enjoyment of the past- Bhogav-
Answer: Well, to Vallabhacharya
Question 8. When Guru Nanak was born –
Answer: 1469 AD
Question 9. Who belonged to Satnami sect-
Answer: From Veerabhan
Question 10. A long commentary was written on Bhagavad Gita “Bharath Deepika” is the composition of which saint-
Answer – Gyaneshwar’s
Question 11. Where Ramanuj was born –
Answer: Tirupati (Tamil Nadu)
Question 12. Who were the followers of Ashtavapat’s poet-
Answer: Vallabhacharya’s
Question 13. What was Khanqah–
Answer: Sufis shelter
Question 14. Who were the ones who embraced the Indian Yoga technique-
Answer: Chishti.
Question 15. Which way Ramanuj encouraged-
A) Knowledge route B.) Karm Marg, S.) Bhakti Marg.) The above three
Answer: S.) Bhakti Marg.
Q. Who started the history of Bhakti movement?
Answer: The Shankaracharya
Question 17. Which of the following is not well matched-
A.) Vidyapathi – Maithili
B.) Tulsidas – Awadhi
C.) Surdas – Braj
D.) Shankardev – Bengali
Answer-D.) Shankardev – Bengali
Q. 18. Whose design is Dassbodh?
Answer: Ramadas.
Question 19. Who was the saint, whom his followers considered him as the incarnation of Vishnu-
Answer: Namdev.
Question 20. Which sect was related to Shaikh Ahmed Sarhindi?
Answer: From the Naqshbandi community
Question 21. What is the collection of Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi’s letter?
Answer: Mukutwad-Rahmani
Question 22. Which saint was famous as Mahbud Elahi?
Answer: Nizamuddin Auliya
Question 23. The main center of the Shattari series was-
Answer: Patna
Question 24. What Tansen and Humayun were influenced by which country?
Answer: The Shattari sect
Question 25. Who was Sufi saint, which Akbar had given to Manasab, but later withdrew due to rift-
Answer: Sheikh Musa
Question 26 What was the main equality in the life philosophy of Buddha and Meerabai?
Answer: The world is sad
Question 27. ‘Brahma is the truth and the world is false (illusion) or illusion)’-
Answer: Shankaracharya’s
Question 28. The devotional cult in Maharashtra was spread by whose teachings-
Answer: Saint Dnyaneshwar’s
Question 29. Which saint has made the medium of dance and songs (kirtan) in order to experience God with him-
Answer: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Question 30. The initial exponent of the Bhakti movement was-
Answer: Ramanuj Acharya
Question 31. Guru of Kabir was-
Answer: Ramanand
Question 32. Saint Kabir was born-
Answer: Maghar / Varanasi
Question 33 The pioneer of the Bhakti movement in Punjab-
Answer: NANAK
Question 34. The Bhakti movement is credited with bringing from South India to North India –
Answer: Ramanand
Question 35. 13th century is the founder of the Dualism vote-
Answer: Madhavacharya
Question 36. The first teacher to give philosophical foundation to devotion was-
Answer: Sankardev
Question 37. Shankaracharya was born in 788 AD. In which village of Kerala was there?
Answer: Kaladi / Kaladi
Question 38. Bhakti movement was started-
Answer: Aalavaar-Nayanaar saints
Question 39. The followers of Ramanuja are called-
Answer: Vaishnav
Question 40. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was associated with which community?
Answer: From the Gaudya Cummunity
Question 41. Establishment of the philosophy of the confirmation path-
Answer: Vallabhacharya
Question 42. Adishankar, who later became Shankaracharya, was born –
Answer: Kerala
Question 43. The proponents of the theory of monism were-
Answer: Shankaracharya
Question 44. The author of the song is Govind-
Answer: Jayadev
Question 45. Ramanujacharya had success in making Vaishnava Dharmavlambi, the Jain Dharmavalambi ruler Vitting of the Hoysal dynasty. What did Vittig change his name?
Answer: Vishnuvardhan
Question 46. Who prevented the Shudras from accepting Islam as religion by giving them authority for Goddess and salvation?
Answer: Ramanujacharya
Question 47. Chaitanya is the birthplace of Mahaprabhu-
Answer : Nadia / Navdeep (Bengal)
Question 48. Orissa king Prataprudra was a disciple of Vaishnav saint-
Answer: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Question 49. The saint of South India who spent most of his life in Vrindavan in North India-
Answer: Nimbarka Acharya
Question 50. Reconciliation-A-Total ideology, under which no one has been kept away from the obligation to obey any particular religion, whose is-
Answer: Akbar
Question 51. Who is called Chaitanya of Assam-
Answer: Shankar Dev
Question 52. The basic mantra of slackers – python does not eat, birds do or work is created by –
Answer: Maloos Das
Question 53. Mahatma Gandhi’s beloved ‘Bhajan-Vaishnav Jan To Tane Kehne, who is the author of Pir Karai Jaane Re’ –
Answer: Narsi / Narasimha Mehta
Question 54. ‘If Sanskrit is a deity language, then is my mother tongue (Marathi) bandu language’, it is a saying-
Answer: Eknath’s
Question 55. Bhagat Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor
Answer: Jahangir
Question 56 Guru Nanak was born in 1469 AD. Where did it happen?
Answer: Talwandi / Nunkana
Question 57. The credit of popularizing Vaishnavism in Bengal and Orissa is credit?
Answer: Chaitanya
Question 58. Shivaji was the spiritual teacher-
Answer: Ramdas
Question 59. Jaati-Paati na puche koi, so do Hari ka Hoy ‘, these lines are —
Answer: Ramanand’s
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