Narada Bhakti Sutras

by Bhuteshananda

A verse-by-verse translation with Sanskrit in Devanagri, transliteration, and commentary. Based on classes given by the author while visiting the Vedanta Centre in Japan. The author, Swami Bhuteshananda, was the 12th President of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. He was greatly was loved and respected for his saintly personality, his profound scholarship, and his lucid exposition of the scriptures. He visited the Vedanta Centre of Japan ten times, staying there for about 75 Japanese students of Vedanta. Many of them who attended his classes all the years, later taped, transcribed, and sent the scripts to Belur Math.

The swami initially rejected the idea of bringing the title out in a book form, for he felt that the lectures were superficial. Impressed by reading the lectures in Vedanta, many, however, persisted in their request to publish them as a book.

Genres: Spirituality

212 pages

First published January 1, 1

Reviews

[Ankur Acharya · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderfully insightful book on what I would call the psychology of the heart, the same heart where the indwelling Lord is said to exist. Written in simple but good English, the book is a useful guide for those believing in a spiritual existence and wishing to verify the same through their own experience. The author was rather unwilling to have this commentary of his on the Narada Bhakti Sutras to be published as he regarded it as not up to the mark! But thankfully he did agree to its publication ultimately -- a great gain for the healthy intelligent thinking minds. I will like to re-read this book again and yet again. That is on my priority list. For as I am gathering more experience, often the hard painful way, the author's words I am sure will throw new light on my experiences, or to put it in a different way, I will be able to gather fresh insight into the working of my heart (the emotional and intuitional mind)through fresh reading of this jewel of a book, the author's swan song. I had the good fortune to meet and correspond with the author a few times. To my heart, he seems an exceptional human being, the salt of the Earth so to say, one with outstanding qualities of head and heart that he used for the weal of many. His life was a saga of sacrifice, love and profound scholarship.

[Ankur Acharya · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book by my spiritual teacher or Guru Swami Bhuteshananda gives me peace and clarifies my doubts and misconceptions. I find it very helpful, lucid, in an easy-to-understand format and inspiring. I am reading an aphorism or two a day from the book daily. I feel this book will be one which will be of perennial inspiration to me in my life's journey.

[Aditya Dutta · Rating 5 out of 5]

You want to know what LOVE is? Read it ...

[Nagarajan Narayanan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful guide to a classic on Bhakthi Yoga!