Bhakti Vinoda Padavali (Matchless Collection of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's 'Gitavali', 'Sarangagati', 'Kalyana Kalpataru' and 'Gitamala' in One Book)

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Songs of Śrila Bhaktivinoda Thakura are widely known, respected and relished by all the Gaudiya Vaisnava Devotees - practitioners as well as advanced stalwart devotees, who have attained perfection, all around the world. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written countless songs which are divided into four books.

Fathomless eternal mercy of Śrī Śri Guru-Gaurāńga has descended to enable the present publication of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thakura's four famous Bengali songbooks - Gītāvalī, Śaraņāgati, Kalyāņa-Kalpataru and Gitamālā in one book - Bhaktivinoda Padavalı, for the first time in the English language.

Śrīla Prabhupāda always used to sing these songs of our great Vaisnava Ācāryas like Śrīla Narottama Dāsa Thakura, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thakura and he always inspired his disciples and followers to do the same. He even gave his purports to many of these songs. He writes in his foreword to The Songs of the Vaisnava Acāryas: "...I am greatly pleased to see this collection of songs composed by Thakura Bhaktivinoda, Narottama dāsa, and other great ācāryas of the Gaudiya Vaişņava sampradaya. Songs composed by the ācāryas are not ordinary songs. When chanted by pure Vaisnavas who follow the rules and regulations of Vaisnava character, they are actually effective in awakening the Krsna consciousness dormant in every living entity." He further writes to show the importance of these songs, " I have advised Śrīman Acyutānanda Svāmī to sing more songs of the Vaisnava padāvalī and record them in books so that my disciples and others in the Western countries may take advantage of this chanting and thus advance in Krsna consciousness more and more... We should always remember the danger of māyā's influence and endeavor to save ourselves from her great power. We must therefore always merge in the transcendental mellow of kirtana-rasa, for kirtana-rasa is the safest situation within this material world."