Re: The word "Bhakti" is not in the Vedas
Pranam Snip
I think if you research a bit more on bhakti you would find that it has its roots a lot long before Sri Chetanya MahaPrabhu although he did popularise the path a lot, but then he is not the only one around that time.
Before that the Alvars of south India are know for their great Bhakti in their songs.
Even Sankaracharya acknowledges Bhakti, if you consider his song Bhaja Govinda.
As you rightly point out Bhagvat Gita mentions Bhakti, in fact whole chapter 12 is about Bhakti. so how can you deduce that bhakti is a new path?
And he promises my Bhakta will never perish.
Vedas for great part deals in Karma kand result of all the effort and tapas eventually leads to gyan or bhakti.
СupAsana, meaning homage, adoration, worship or litterally 'sitting or being near or at hand.' "
now can this be sustained without the love for it?
What can be more evident for the bhakti to be an eternal path then the existence of Narad Muni and Hanuman, as a Hindu I need no more evidence.
So no its not a new path recently given
Сgreater empahsis under the name of "bhakti" by later Vedantins as a way to acknowledge it as a way to moksha e.g. Caitanya?Т
These literatures Ramayan, MahaBharat and Purans are full of Bhakti, long before the appearance of Chetanya MahaPrabhu.
Jai Shree Krishna
Rig Veda list only 33 devas, they are all propitiated, worthy off our worship, all other names of gods are derivative from this 33 originals,
Bhagvat Gita; Shree Krishna says Chapter 3.11 devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah sreyah param avapsyatha Chapter 17.4 yajante sattvika devan yaksa-raksamsi rajasah pretan bhuta-ganams canye yajante tamasa janah
The world disappears in him. He is the peaceful, the good, the one without a second.
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