Editing Bhakti movement (section)

=== ''Bhagavad Gita'' ===
{{Main article|Bhagavad Gita}}
The ''Bhagavad Gita'', a post-Vedic scripture composed in 5th to 2nd century BCE,{{sfnp|Fowler|2012|loc= see Foreword}} introduces ''bhakti marga'' (the path of faith/devotion) as one of three ways to spiritual freedom and release, the other two being ''[[karma yoga|karma marga]]'' (the path of works) and ''[[jnana yoga|jnana marga]]'' (the path of knowledge).<ref name="Minor">{{cite book|last=Minor|first=Robert Neil|title=Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgita|publisher=SUNY Press|year=1986|page=3|isbn=978-0-88706-297-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ku2DGm20WWUC&pg=PA3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Glucklich|first=Ariel|title=The Strides of Vishnu|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|page=104|isbn=978-0-19-531405-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtLScrjrWiAC&pg=PA104}}</ref> 

In verses 6.31 through 6.47 of the ''Bhagavad Gita'', [[Krishna]] describes bhakti yoga and loving devotion as one of the several paths to the highest spiritual attainments.<ref name="Jacobsen">{{cite book |editor-last=Jacobsen |editor-first=Knut A. | year = 2005 | title = Theory And Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson | page=351 | publisher = Brill Academic Publishers| isbn=90-04-14757-8}}</ref><ref name="chapple">Christopher Key Chapple (Editor) and Winthrop Sargeant (Translator), ''The Bhagavad Gita: Twenty-fifth–Anniversary Edition'', State University of New York Press, {{ISBN|978-1438428420}}, pages 302-303, 318</ref>