A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti: Essential Teachings of by Tamal Krishna Goswami,Graham M. Schweig

By Tamal Krishna Goswami,Graham M. Schweig

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup?da (1896-1977), founding father of the Hare Krishna stream, traced his lineage to the fifteenth-century Indian saint Sri Chaitanya. He authored greater than fifty volumes of English translation and commentaries on Sanskrit and Bengali texts, serving as a medium among those far-off specialists and his sleek Western readership and utilizing his writings as blueprints for religious swap and a revolution in realization. He needed to communicate the language of a humans enormously disparate from the unique recipients of his tradition's scriptures with out compromising constancy to the tradition.

Tamal Krishna Goswami claims that the social medical, philosophical, and 'insider' sorts of research formerly utilized have did not clarify the presence of a robust interpretative device-a mahavakya or 'great utterance'-that governs and pervades Prabhupada's 'living theology' of devotion on bhakti. For Prabhupada, the wide variety of 'vedic' material is ruled through the axiomatic fact: Krishna is the perfect character of Godhead.

Goswami's educational education on the college of Cambridge, his thirty years' adventure as a practitioner and instructor, and his vast interactions with Prabhupada as either own secretary and managerial consultant, afforded him a different chance to appreciate and remove darkness from the theological contribution of Prabhupada. during this paintings, Goswami proves that the voice of the scholar-practitioner could be in detail attached along with his culture whereas maintaining a mature severe stance relative to his topic. A dwelling Theology of Krishna Bhakti incorporates a serious advent and end by way of Graham M. Schweig.

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