Bhakti-rasayana by Madhusudana Sarasvati
(Study and translation of first chapter)
by Lance Edward Nelson | 2021 | 139,165 words
This is a study and English translation of the Bhakti-rasayana by Madhusudana Sarasvati (16th century)—one of the greatest and most vigorous exponents of Advaita after Shankara-Acharya who was also a great devotee of Krishna. The Bhaktirasayana attempts to merge non-dualist metaphysics with the ecstatic devotion of the Bhagavata Purana, by assertin...
Part 15 - Other Designations of the Melting State
145 This melted state is also known by the words attachment, 146 and affection. 147 For instance: He is called the foremost of devotees whose heart Hari-Who destroys a multitude of sins even when called on absentmindedly--does not leave because His lotus feet 148 are bound by the cord of love. 11.2.54 "Love" "149 here is the melted state. It is a cord, a means of binding like a rope, since that which has once entered in the melting state cannot come out again.