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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ABSTRACT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 鈥� TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: ADVAITA, BHAKTI, AND MADHUS脹DANA PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS iii iv 1 Chapter
I.
DEVOTIONAL TRENDS AND IMPERSONALISM IN THE
EARLY SCRIPTURES
20 1.1
Bhakti, Personalism, and
Impersonalism
20 鈥�
1.2
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Devotional and Impersonalist Aspects of
Vedic Religion
24 鈥�
1.3
Devotional Trends and Impersonalism
1.4
II.
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.5.1
in the Major Upanisads
Bhakti and Advaita in the
Bhagavad Gita .
BHAKTI IN THE WRITINGS OF SAMKARA
Introduction: Sankara as
艢amkara as
a devotee?
Samkara's Authentic Works
Levels of Being and Religious Structures
Structures in Place: JIva and
Isvara
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Sankara's Devaluation of Devotion
The penultimacy of religious
structures and bhakti
33 43
52 鈥�
52 鈥�
54 56
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61 67
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67 2.5.2
2.5.3
2.5.4
Bhakti not an independent path
Knowledge the means to liberation
Saving knowledge mediated through
the Vedic revelation
70 73
74 2.5.5
Eligibility for knowledge
75 2.5.6
Karma and bhakti as
2.5.7
preparatory to knowledge
Bhakti and up膩sana
77 鈥�
78 2.5.8
The seeker of knowledge rejects
devotion
82 鈥�
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2.5.9
The Gita interpreted for the
箩帽腻苍颈苍
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