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The Bhaktas brought suit to challenge the compensation award they had received through a quick-take condemnation proceeding relating to property they owned that had been condemned by Hennepin County as part of an upgrade to an adjacent county road.

"What is your ancestry?" he asks, "Have you no parentage?" In context it amounts to saying, 'admit that you are a Hindu; if not, accept your inferior position.' Even Rahul had to admit under pressure that his family were Shiva bhaktas in order to be accepted, even just tolerated.

John Maximovich; "king-slaves" in South Africa: shrines, ritual, and resistance; and holy negotiations in a Hindu heartland: abundant people and spaces among the Khrist Bhaktas of Banaras.

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For all these women bhaktas the rejection of the power of the male figure that they were tied to in subordinate relationship became the terrain for struggle, self-assertion and alternative seeking.

A number of saintly preachers grew up in the fold of Hinduism who called themselves Bhaktas or devotees of God.

For instance, the greatest of the Muslim sufis, Jewish kabbalists, Hindu bhaktas, Christian mystics, Buddhist bodhisattvas, and Platonist philosophers all seem to be at one in their striving for an experience of unity with the One, which in the West is called God, Theos.

Given the focus of Callewaert's research, it is not surprising to find a heavy density of quotes from the nirgwya bhaktas of the Pancavani: Dadii, Kabir (who looms large, with all three major recensions of his works included in their entirety), Namdev, Raiders, and Hardev, and Dadapanthis (such as Sundardds, Jan Gopal, and those included in Gopaldas's anthology Sarvangi), partly overlapping with the bhagats from the Sikh sacred scripture.

169-70 and Jorgensen, Jonas Adelin, Jesus Imandars and Christ Bhaktas: Report from Two Field Studies of Interreligious Hermeneutics and Identity in Globalized Christianity, p.

In contrast to the typical urban, poor, and low-caste Christians, the group of Khrist bhaktas (devotees of Christ) that I had the chance to follow during my fieldwork were all from a higher-caste Hindu background.

She is the energy in the Sun, the fragrance in the flowers, the beauty in the landscape, the Gayatri or the Blessed Mother in the Vedas, colour in the rainbow, intelligence in the mind, potency in the homeopathic pills, power in Makaradhvaja and gold oxide, will and vicara sakti in sages, devotion in bhaktas, Samyara and Samadhi in Yogins.