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 THREE 1 Hardy, VB, pp. 11, 44. 2 Hardy, VB, pp. 261-269. 3 Hardy, VB, p. 488. 4 Hardy, VB, pp. 11, 43. 5s. N. Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966) IV, 1. 6 See chap. 4, note 6. 71. J. Hopkins, The Hindu Religious Tradition, p. 118. Hardy gives ca. 600-950 as the period of the Alv膩rs ("Madhavendra Purl: A Link Between Bengal Vaisnavism and South Indian Bhakti Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [ of Great Britain and Ireland], 1974, p. 23). 8 writing in the forward to Milton Singer, p. iv. 9aho bhagyam aho bhagyam nandagopavrajaukas膩m / yanmitram param膩nandam purnam brahma san膩tanam, BP 10.14.32; GS II, Il15. 10ekadese 'khilasargasau峁ａ弓avyam tvad墨yam adr膩k峁a vaya峁� madhudvi峁岣�, BP 10.39.2lb (GS II, 1218); ak峁vat膩m phalam idam na param vid膩ma岣�, BP 10.21.7 (GS II, 1146). 11 See BP 10.39.20; 10.21; 10.35; 10.44.14. 12paramo dharma岣�, 1.2.6; see 1.2.8, 2.2.33-34, 3.25.44, 4.9.10, 10.47.24, quoted in BR 1, sec. IX. For all references to BR 1, see the translation in chap. 7. 13 ek膩ntino yasya na ka帽can膩rtha峁� v膩帽cchanti ye vai bhagavatprapanna岣� / atyadbhutam taccaritam sumangalam gayanta anandasamudramagna岣�, BP 8.3.20; GS II, 830. 14cp. 14 Cp. the extension of this principle in Hem膩dri's dictum that devotion is the experience of bliss, while mok峁 is only the state of bliss. Below, chap. 4, note 105. 413
