What were the reasons for the emergence of the Bhakti Movement?
Following were the main objectives of the Bhakti Movement : A number of dogmatisms became a part of Hinduism. People became very superstitious. They started to believe in idol worship, sacrifices, magic, etc. So the main objective of the Bhakti movement was to remove all these evil practices. The caste system became very rigid in Hinduism. People of lower castes were hated by the upper caste. Lower castes started to adopt Islam and Hinduism came in danger. Preachers of the Bhakti Movement wanted to save Hinduism from this sort of danger.Muslims also forced Hindus to convert to Islam. It led to an increase in mutual conflicts among them. Therefore, Bhakti Movement originated to remove mutual differences. There was another major objective of the Bhakti Movement and that was to encourage religious harmony within the country.
