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If some yogins, with their minds controlled by the
practice of meditation, see that attributeless,
actionless, supreme Light, let them see it. But as for
me, may that wondrous blue Effulgence that runs and
plays on the banks of the Yamuna long be the delight of
my eyes. 26
This is the great Advaitin speaking, the master of anti-
dualist dialectic, yet the surprising truth is that he is
also a fervent devotee of K峁涐梗峁嘺. In Madhusudana we are
confronted with an authoritative spokesman, indeed a
consummate master, of Advaita who is at the same time a
bhakta. The questions arising from the short but pregnant
verse in the AS, therefore, are serious and even take on a
certain urgency.
Madhusudana, in fact, wrote several works dealing
with bhakti, the most important of which were the
Bhaktiras膩yana ("Elixir of Devotion") (BR), the only
independent treatise on the subject ever written by one of
the great preceptors of Advaita, and the G奴岣峢膩rthad暮pik膩
(GAD), an extensive commentary on the "hidden meaning"
(g奴岣峢膩rtha) of the Bhagavad Git膩. The teaching of these
works, especially the BR, will be the central focus of the
present study. Other writings of Madhusudana that deal with
devotion include the Mahim峁噉a岣�stotra峁璱k膩, a commentary on
the popular "Hymn on the Greatness of Siva" by Puspadanta,
in which Madhusudana argues that Siva and Vi峁ａ箛u are both
none other than the I艣vara who is identical with Brahman,
and the Bh膩gavatapur膩峁嘺prathama艣lokavy膩khy膩, a commentary on