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Jun
Love is a powerful feeling that can inspire, soothe and even motivate humans to do amazing things. It can be expressed towards a spouse, a family member, a friend or even one’s pets. However, the term love is also used in a more spiritual sense to describe one’s devotion to a higher power. This devotion is called bhakti and is the focus of a number of Hindu religions. The earliest references to this form of love date back to ancient Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavata Purana and Tulsidas’ works. Various Hindu philosophers, theologians and writers distinguish nine forms of…