About the Book
We have great pleasure in presenting to our readers the Indian edition of Narada's Way of Divine Love by Swami Prabhavanand. Though this Math has published an excellent English translation and commentary by swami Tyagisananda of the same work viz., Narada Bhakti Sutras, we thought of bringing out an Indian edition of the present work also for the following reasons:
Written as it is with the non-Sanskrit knowing students in view, this new commentary avoids all the technicalities that usually go with the interpretations of such classical much helpful to the ever-increasing number of non-Sanskrit knowing Indians as to Westerners in entering into spiritual implication of this great text.
Secondly, the learned commentator of this work has a distinctive style of his own which is at once simple and profound, so helpful to produce an ennobling effect on the minds of the readers.
We are thankful to Swami Prabhavananda for his ready permission to publish this Indian edition of his work.
We hope our readers will welcome it as an invaluable addition to their collection of devotional literature.
Pages | |
PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION | vii |
PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO FIRST EDITION | ix |
PERFACE | xi |
INTRODUCTION | xiii |
NARDA | 1 |
I Supreme Love Defined | 9 |
II Renunciation and Self-Surrender | 40 |
III Exemplars of Divine Love | 52 |
IV The Highest Gold of Human Life | 67 |
V How to Attain Supreme Love | 80 |
VI Seek Holy Company | 100 |
VII Preparatory and Supreme Devotion | 123 |
VIII The Forms of Divine Love | 131 |
IX Ethical Virtues and Worship of God | 156 |
GLOSSARY | 155 |
BOOK CONSULTED | 176 |
About the Book
We have great pleasure in presenting to our readers the Indian edition of Narada's Way of Divine Love by Swami Prabhavanand. Though this Math has published an excellent English translation and commentary by swami Tyagisananda of the same work viz., Narada Bhakti Sutras, we thought of bringing out an Indian edition of the present work also for the following reasons:
Written as it is with the non-Sanskrit knowing students in view, this new commentary avoids all the technicalities that usually go with the interpretations of such classical much helpful to the ever-increasing number of non-Sanskrit knowing Indians as to Westerners in entering into spiritual implication of this great text.
Secondly, the learned commentator of this work has a distinctive style of his own which is at once simple and profound, so helpful to produce an ennobling effect on the minds of the readers.
We are thankful to Swami Prabhavananda for his ready permission to publish this Indian edition of his work.
We hope our readers will welcome it as an invaluable addition to their collection of devotional literature.
Pages | |
PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION | vii |
PUBLISHER'S NOTE TO FIRST EDITION | ix |
PERFACE | xi |
INTRODUCTION | xiii |
NARDA | 1 |
I Supreme Love Defined | 9 |
II Renunciation and Self-Surrender | 40 |
III Exemplars of Divine Love | 52 |
IV The Highest Gold of Human Life | 67 |
V How to Attain Supreme Love | 80 |
VI Seek Holy Company | 100 |
VII Preparatory and Supreme Devotion | 123 |
VIII The Forms of Divine Love | 131 |
IX Ethical Virtues and Worship of God | 156 |
GLOSSARY | 155 |
BOOK CONSULTED | 176 |