Modern Hindu practice is really focused on devotion to Shiva and or Vishnu or aspects of them or incarnations of them, for example, Rama or Krishna. So how did Hinduism evolve in this way? And the answer is the bhakti movement. And the word bhakti can be translated as devotion or devotional love. And it is believed to have come out of South India in the seventh century. Some people would call it a reform of Hinduism that up until that point focused on the somewhat arcane rituals of the Vedas. And the bhakti movement provided an alternate path, a path of devotion.