From: Chaitanya caran das
To: Bhakti Vikasa Swami
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Respected Bhakti Vikas Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to your divine self.
I have just begun reading your magnum opus Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava and I liked it so much that I felt I must write immediately to appreciate it.
1. The exhaustive research as seen in the painstaking referencing and footnoting makes the book highly authoritative and, to my knowledge, unique among all the biographies published in ISKCON.
2. Your choice of precise English words is potent and perfect in conveying the activities, teachings, and personality of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati. Despite the plethora of books being published nowadays even among the devotee community, your book is the rare feast that is both intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating and is a succor for struggling
spiritualists like me who are conditioned by the voracity of their intellects. And you expertly make the book accessible for those with a modest command over English by the glossary of abstruse English words.
3. The division of the biography into three parts, each addressing a distinctive theme, makes it both innovative and comprehensive as compared to the standard biography format which tries to crunch everything into one volume and or spreads the chronological narration over several volumes with teachings interspersed randomly in between.
4. The second volume with its compilation of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati's position on various social issues is an excellent research resource for devotee and secular scholars as well as an invaluable aid in vision-casting for our devotee leaders.
5. The third volume with its profiles of the people whom he influenced and inspired helps us understand how an acharya bequeaths his legacy to his followers and how our beloved Srila Prabhupada so uniquely inherited the legacy that his spiritual master passed him down to all his disciples.
6. Truly, the book is a glorious, unparalleled service to the entire Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya. By its scope and depth, it is a bridge from the past to the future; as a fitting glorification of one of our most prominent past acharyas, it will be an inexhaustible inspiration for future generations of Gaudiya Vaishnavas.
My profuse, heartfelt thanks to you for toiling and battling for so many decades to bring out this masterpiece.
Your servant
Chaitanya charan das
"Chant Hare Krishna and be happy"
हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे
To: Bhakti Vikasa Swami
------------------------------------------------------------
Respected Bhakti Vikas Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
All glories to your divine self.
I have just begun reading your magnum opus Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava and I liked it so much that I felt I must write immediately to appreciate it.
1. The exhaustive research as seen in the painstaking referencing and footnoting makes the book highly authoritative and, to my knowledge, unique among all the biographies published in ISKCON.
2. Your choice of precise English words is potent and perfect in conveying the activities, teachings, and personality of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati. Despite the plethora of books being published nowadays even among the devotee community, your book is the rare feast that is both intellectually stimulating and spiritually invigorating and is a succor for struggling
spiritualists like me who are conditioned by the voracity of their intellects. And you expertly make the book accessible for those with a modest command over English by the glossary of abstruse English words.
3. The division of the biography into three parts, each addressing a distinctive theme, makes it both innovative and comprehensive as compared to the standard biography format which tries to crunch everything into one volume and or spreads the chronological narration over several volumes with teachings interspersed randomly in between.
4. The second volume with its compilation of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati's position on various social issues is an excellent research resource for devotee and secular scholars as well as an invaluable aid in vision-casting for our devotee leaders.
5. The third volume with its profiles of the people whom he influenced and inspired helps us understand how an acharya bequeaths his legacy to his followers and how our beloved Srila Prabhupada so uniquely inherited the legacy that his spiritual master passed him down to all his disciples.
6. Truly, the book is a glorious, unparalleled service to the entire Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya. By its scope and depth, it is a bridge from the past to the future; as a fitting glorification of one of our most prominent past acharyas, it will be an inexhaustible inspiration for future generations of Gaudiya Vaishnavas.
My profuse, heartfelt thanks to you for toiling and battling for so many decades to bring out this masterpiece.
Your servant
Chaitanya charan das
"Chant Hare Krishna and be happy"
हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे
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