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 FIVE 442 Note that, while R膩m膩nuja and his followers reject
the idea of jIvanmukti, holding that liberation is possible
only after the soul's departure from the body, Madhva,
Vallabha, and the Gosvamins all admit that this state is
possible. The Vai峁ａ箛avas do not, however, place the high
valuation on liberation-in-life that the Samkara tradition
does.
92 See chap. 4.3.1.
93 See Hemadri's dictum regarding the superiority of
bhakti to mok峁, discussed at chap. 4, note 105.
94 See above, note 77.
95BR 1, sec. XXIX, stanza 36; JSP, p. 93.
96bhaktisukhadh膩r膩y膩s sarvade艣ak膩lasarfrendriy膩di-
s膩dh膩ra峁噛ena brahmavidyaphalavad upabhoktum 艣akyatv膩t
nirati艣ayopapatte岣�, BR 1, sec. XI; JSP, p. 30.
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