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- noun Hinduism One who is devoted to god in the form of
bhakti .
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Examples
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Nirod says: Champaklal was not a bhakta of the traditional type, ...
Nashram! Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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At issue here is not so much the raging heart of the bhakta but more the testosterone surges of aggrieved rival males bent on extracting revenge by tracing a victim hood past slights of ones guru, to matters of race and national identity.
Lately, they gaz'd at da tony Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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At issue here is not so much the raging heart of the bhakta but more the testosterone surges of aggrieved rival males bent on extracting revenge by tracing a victim hood past slights of ones guru, to matters of race and national identity.
Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Nirod says: Champaklal was not a bhakta of the traditional type, ...
Archive 2009-04-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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But he is also a devotee, a _bhakta_: he adores all the
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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Look at his past, and where do you find a bhakta of Mahâdeva more absolute in devotion than the one who came forth later as Râvana?
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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And because he was a true bhakta, and because every moment of absence from his Lord meant to him hell of torture, he chose three of enmity, which would let him go back sooner to the Feet of the Beloved, rather than the seven of happiness, of friendliness.
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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First then He comes to show forth to the world a great Object of bhakti, and the love of God to His bhakta, or devotee.
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Keeper of Viṣhṇu's heaven, door-keeper of the mighty Lord, devotee, bhakta, absolutely devoted to the Lord.
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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One should think of the time, of Radha and Krishna, the attitude of the bhakta.
The Hindu - Home ANJANA RAJAN 2010
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