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12. VAISHNAVISM
Bhakti Period 600 A.D. to 1200 A. D.
This is the period when the Brahmins having defeated the Kalabhras (Kerala Putras) tookover the country. Realizing the power of devotion to a personal monistic God took over that aspect and restated Brahmanism in Hinduism as we know today in terms of Bakthi. Vedas were artificially introduced as the base as though Hinduism was a continuous outgrowth of the teachings of Vedas and exhaustive mythical Puranas were written as real history. Myths were taught and taken as reality.
Thus it is evident that Brahminism took every advantage of the Christian teachings and deliberately distorted or rewrote them into Gnostic Hinduism. In order to cover up this gross reality even history was wiped out. We can still see these tendencies in todays Brahminism where an active process of rewriting history is in process. Sankara united everything in his Advaita where man became God himself. Attempts of writers to regain faith not only failed its intent but were absorbed as part of the
Hinduism.
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