But it is interesting to note that the further subdivision of the Vairî ['s]âkhâthe ['S]irikâ bhatti (Srikâ bhakti) which inscription No. 6 mentions, is not known to the Kalpasûtra.

There remained a third waythe path of bhakti or devotion to God.

But it is the path of bhakti or devotion to a personal God which commands Krishna's strongest approval and leads him to make his startling revelation.

This distinction between East and West holds good on the whole, although on the one side we find the heretical Brahmin followers of Bhakti, and Ramananda and his great disciple, Kabir, who taught that man was the supreme manifestation of God; and on the other, occasional lapses into Quietism and repudiation of the body.