The Nectar of Instruction

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Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Published:

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 917149555X

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Eleven Lessons in the Ancient Science of Bhakti-yoga Across five centuries and half the globe comes this compact guidebook of essential spiritual teachings. How to choose a guru, how to practice yoga, even where to live — you'll find it all in this invaluable work originally written in Sanskrit by Srila Rupa Gosvami, the greatest spiritual genius of medieval India. Now translated and illuminated by Rupa Gosvami's modern successor, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Nectar of Instruction is the key to enlightenment for all seekers on the path of spiritual perfection.

Sri Sri Upadesamrta

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Author: Bhakti Vinod Thakur

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9781701434981

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On the bank of the ocean, within the divine domain of Lord Jagannāth, amidst His beloved associates during the final days of His manifest presence, the ocean of mercy Śrī Gaurahari gently spoke His essential teachings for the highest benefit of all living beings in the form of His Śikṣāṣṭakam. Śrīla Rūpa Goswāmī imbibed this nectar in full, understood it perfectly, and revealed its purport in the form of Śrī Śrī Upadeśāmṛta.This edition features commentaries by Śrīmad Rādhā Ramaṇ Dās Goswāmī, Śrīla Bhakti Vinod Ṭhākur, Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Saraswatī Ṭhākur, and Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj. Additional content includes twelve articles by Śrīla Bhakti Vinod Ṭhākur on Śrī Śrī Upadeśāmṛta's second and third verses, Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Saraswatī Ṭhākur's discourse on Śrī Śrī Upadeśāmṛta at Śrī Rādhā Kuṇḍa in 1932, and Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Saraswatī Ṭhākur's Prākṛta-rasa-śata-dūṣaṇī.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

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Author: His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

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Total Pages: 1284

ISBN-13: 9171496610

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Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta is the main work on the life and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna who appeared in India five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequities of the caste system; politically, by His organization of a massive civil disobedience movement in Bengal, more than four centuries before Gandhi. This English translation with commentary, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, reveals his consummate Bengali and Sanskrit scholarship, his intimate familiarity with the precepts of Sri Chaitanya, and his pure devotion to God.

Dance of Divine Love

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Author: Graham M. Schweig

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0691190178

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The heart of this book is a dramatic love poem, the Rasa Lila, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bhagavata Purana. Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring religious vision is one of the world's greatest sacred love stories and, as Graham Schweig clearly demonstrates, should be regarded as India's Song of Songs. The story presents the supreme deity as the youthful and amorous cowherd, Krishna, who joins his beloved maidens in an enchanting and celebratory "dance of divine love." Schweig introduces this work of exquisite poetry and profound theology to the Western world in the form of a luminous translation and erudite scholarly treatment. His book explores the historical context and literary genre of the work and elucidates the aesthetic and emotional richness of the composition, highlighting poignant details of this drama of divine love. Schweig illuminates the religious dimensions and ethical nuances of the drama, drawing widely from the commentaries and esoteric vision of masters of the Caitanya school of Vaishnavism, a prominent devotional Hindu tradition. Themes such as transcendence of death through love, the yoga of devotion, the contrast between worldly love and passionate love for God, and the dialectical tension between ethical boundaries and boundless love are presented. The final event of the Rasa dance, the author concludes, presents a dynamic symbol of supreme love that provides the basis for a theological vision of genuine religious pluralism.

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