More Questions on Bhakti Movement
- Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
D)None of the above
Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
- Q. Who was the disciple of Vallabhacharya?
A)Surdas
B)Tulsidas
C)Tukaram
D)Ramanuja
Answer: Surdas
- Q. Who among the following was born into a Rathore royal family of Kudki district of Pali, Rajasthan and was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna?
A)Mirabai
B)Ramananda
C)Tukaram
D)Kabir
Answer: Mirabai
- Q. Who was the the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times?
A)Tukaram
B)Ramananda
C)Mirabai
D)Kabir
Answer: Ramananda
- Q. Who was the founder of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra in 13th Century?
A)Ekanatha
B)Namadev
C)Tukaram
D)Gnanadeva
Answer: Gnanadeva
- Q. Which Bhakti saint preached the concept of Vishishtadvaita?
A)Ramanuja
B)Sankara
C)Madhava
D)Nimbarka
Answer: Ramanuja
- Q. Which of the following Bhakti Saints poem is compiled in Sur Sagar, Sahitva Ratna and Sur Sarawali?
A)Kabirdas
B)Sur Das
C)Tulsidas
D)Kalidasa
Answer: Sur Das
- Q. The Sufi saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of moving closer to God was
A)Baba Farid
B)Muin-ud-din-Chisti
C)Saiyid Mummed
D)Shah Alam Bukhari
Answer: Baba Farid
- Q. Sri Ramanuja Acharya was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of
A)Sri Vaishavism
B)Sri Vaishnavism
C)Nirguna
D)Sikkhism
Answer: Sri Vaishnavism
- Q. Who preaches Vishishtadvaita?
A)Saivaite Nayanmars
B)Tulsidas
C)Sankara
D)Ramanuja
Answer: Ramanuja
- Q. Kabir was contemporary of
A)Sultan Sikandar Lodi
B)Guru Nanak
C)Both (A) and (B) above
D)Babur
Answer: Both (A) and (B) above
- Q. Who was the greatest Bhakti poet of Maharasthra?
A)Tukaram
B)Ramdas
C)Namdeva
D)Eknath
Answer: Tukaram
- Q. Which of the following statement is correct definition of Nirguna?
A)It is the concept of a formless Guru
B)It is the concept of a formless God
C)It is the concept of spirituality
D)None of the above
Answer: It is the concept of a formless God
- Q. Which Sufi’s dargah is at Ajmer?
A)Qutbdin Bakhtiyar Kaki
B)Baba Farid
C)Moinuddin Chisti
D)Khwaja Bahuddin
Answer: Moinuddin Chisti
- Q. Which of the following Bhakti Saint popularised Vaishnava cult in Gujarat?
A)Narasi
B)Chaitanya
C)Tulsidas
D)Sankar Dev
Answer: Narasi
- Q. Which of the following text introduces bhakti marga (the path of faith/devotion) as one of three ways to spiritual freedom and release?
A)Vedanta
B)Vedas
C)Brahamans
D)Bhagwat Gita
Answer: Bhagwat Gita
- Q. Which of the following is/are the compositions of Kabir?
A)Kabir Granthawali& Anurag Sagar
B)Bijak & Sakhi Granth
C)Only B
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about Alvars and Nayanars? I. Some of the earliest bhakti movements (c. sixth century) were led by the Alvars (literally, those who are “immersed” in devotion to Vishnu) and Nayanars (literally, leaders who were devotees of Shiva). II. They travelled from place to place singing hymns in Tamil in praise of their gods. III. During their travels the Alvars and Nayanars identified certain shrines as abodes of their chosen deities
A)I and II
B)Only I
C)I and III
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Who among the following Bhakti Saint emphasised the essential oneness of all religion by describing Hindus and Muslims ‘as pots of the same clay’?
A)Tulsidas
B)Kabir
C)Ramananda
D)Raidasa
Answer: Kabir
- Q. Who among the following had given the doctrine of Advaita or Monism?
A)Saivaite Nayanmars
B)Sankara
C)Vashnavaite Alwars
D)Tukaram
Answer: Sankara
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