Sri Bhakti Sandarbha the Sublime Path To Attain Perfection Volume 2

Bhakti Sandarbha is the fifth book of the Six Sandarbhas. It offers a thorough analysis of bhakti, or devotion, on the basis of Srimad Bhagavata. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī states that the Bhagavata prescribes bhakti as the most efficacious and universal process, abhidheya, for realizing the Absolute. Bhakti has never been established as abhidheya so systematically and emphatically as in this book. Earlier bhakti was generally considered as one among various spiritual processes, including karma yoga, jnana yoga and astanga yoga. Moreover, it was usually regarded as a precursor to jnana yoga, which ultimately leads to liberation. Rarely was bhakti viewed as an independent process. In contrast to this, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī asserts that bhakti is the complete abhidheya, and as such all other processes become futile when bereft of devotion. Other practices have enduring significance only through contact with devotion. Even realization of Brahman is possible only by the grace of bhakti. Bhakti is the most blissful process both in practice and in perfection. This publication contains three volumes.