EBOOK Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti: Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Essential Teachings of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup?da (1896-1977), founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, traced his lineage to the fifteenth-century Indian saint Sri Chaitanya. He authored more than fifty volumes of English translation and commentaries on Sanskrit and Bengali texts, serving as a medium between these distant authorities and his modern Western readership and using his writings as blueprints for spiritual change and a revolution in consciousness. He had to speak the language of a people vastly disparate from the original recipients of his tradition&'s scriptures without compromising fidelity to the tradition. Tamal Krishna Goswami claims that the social scientific, philosophical, and &'insider&' forms of investigation previously applied have failed to explain the presence of a powerful interpretative device-a mahavakya or &'great utterance&'-that governs and pervades Prabhupada&'s &'living theology&' of devotion on bhakti. For Prabhupada, the wide range of &'vedic&' subject matter is governed by the axiomatic truth: Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Goswami&'s academic training at the University of Cambridge, his thirty years&' experience as a practitioner and teacher, and his extensive interactions with Prabhupada as both personal secretary and managerial representative, afforded him a unique opportunity to understand and illuminate the theological contribution of Prabhupada. In this work, Goswami proves that the voice of the scholar-practitioner can be intimately connected with his tradition while sustaining a mature critical stance relative to his subject. A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti includes a critical introduction and conclusion by Graham M. Schweig.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup?da (1896-1977), founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, traced his lineage to the fifteenth-century Indian saint Sri Chaitanya. He authored more than fifty volumes of English translation and commentaries on Sanskrit and Bengali texts, serving as a medium between these distant authorities and his modern Western readership and using his writings as blueprints for spiritual change and a revolution in consciousness. He had to speak the language of a people vastly disparate from the original recipients of his tradition&'s scriptures without compromising fidelity to the tradition. Tamal Krishna Goswami claims that the social scientific, philosophical, and &'insider&' forms of investigation previously applied have failed to explain the presence of a powerful interpretative device-a mahavakya or &'great utterance&'-that governs and pervades Prabhupada&'s &'living theology&' of devotion on bhakti. For Prabhupada, the wide range of &'vedic&' subject matter is governed by the axiomatic truth: Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Goswami&'s academic training at the University of Cambridge, his thirty years&' experience as a practitioner and teacher, and his extensive interactions with Prabhupada as both personal secretary and managerial representative, afforded him a unique opportunity to understand and illuminate the theological contribution of Prabhupada. In this work, Goswami proves that the voice of the scholar-practitioner can be intimately connected with his tradition while sustaining a mature critical stance relative to his subject. A Living Theology of Krishna Bhakti includes a critical introduction and conclusion by Graham M. Schweig.