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)鈥攐ne 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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NOTES: CHAPTER ONE 381 etc.
40 RV 10.90, Radhakrishnan and Moore, p. 19.
41 RV 10.121; Satapatha Br膩hma峁嘺 6.1.1.5, 6.1.2.13,
42RV
42 RV 10.121.1, trans. E. J. Thomas, Radhakrishnan
and Moore, p. 24; italics mine.
43 RV 10.129.7, trans. A. A. Macdonnell,
Radhakrishnan and Moore, p. 24.
44 RV 10.121.1-8, after E. J. Thomas, Radhakrishnan
and Moore, p. 24.
45 RV 10.82.7, trans. R. T. H. Griffith,
Radhakrishnan and Moore, p. 18.
46 While there are over 200 Upanisads extant,
including an obviously apocryphal Allah Upanisad, the
tradition reckons their number at 108. The majority of even
the latter number are distinctly sectarian in nature and of
a relatively late date. The principal and most ancient
Upanisads, upon which the discussion here is based, are
generally regarded as thirteen or fourteen: the B峁沨ad-
膩ra峁噛aka, Ch膩ndogya, Taitir墨ya, Aitareya, Kau峁Ｄ弓akti, Kena,
Ka峁環a, Isa, Mu峁囜笉aka, Pra峁a, M膩峁囜笉奴kya, Maitri, Svet膩艣vatara,
and Mahanar膩ya峁嘺. Samkara comments upon, or refers to, all
of these but the Maitri (Radhakrishnan and Moore, p. 37).
47 AV 11.4; 19.53-54.
48 AV 4.1; 10.2; 10.8.
49 See, e.g., BU 3.7, a passsage important to
搁腻尘腻苍耻箩补.
50 paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads,
trans. A. S. Geden (New York: Dover Publications, Inc.,
1966), p. 12. See note 72, below.
51 See PU 1.1-2; Katha 1.20-29.
TU 2.4.1.
52 yato v膩co nirvartante apr膩pya manas膩 saha,
53ath膩ta 膩de艣a岣�--neti neti, na hy etasm膩d iti nety
anyat param asti, BU 2.3.6. See also BU 3.9.26; 4.2.4;
4.4.22; 4.5.15.
CU 6.2.1.
54sad eva, saumya, idam agra 膩s墨d ekam ev膩dvit墨yam,
