Essay name: Bhakti-rasayana by Madhusudana Sarasvati
Author:
Lance Edward Nelson
Affiliation: McMaster University / Religious Studies
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 asserting that Bhakti is the highest goal of life and by arguinng that Bhakti embodies God within the devotee's mind.
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insurmountably paradoxical quality of his own spiritual
experience.
In the end, the question of why Madhusūdana did
not attempt a more adequate theoretical justification of the
key teachings of the BR throws us back on a more basic
problem, that of trying to arrive at a satisfactory
understanding of his purpose in writing the work.
will be one of those taken up in the next chapter.
This task
