By Ravi M. Gupta
The Chaitanya Vaishnava culture is known for its intensity of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity. Chaitanya Vaishnavas are recognized for having sophisticated the perform and aesthetics of devotion right into a subtle technology. This enforcing devotional edifice was once developed upon a high-quality starting place of philosophical argument and figuring out. during this e-book, Ravi Gupta sheds new gentle at the contribution of Chaitanya Vaishnavism to the world of Indian philosophy. He explores the hermeneutical instruments hired, the old assets harnessed, the constitution of the arguments made, and the relative luck of the pastime. for many faculties of Vaishnavism, the aiding starting place involves the philosophical assets supplied via Vedanta. The Chaitanya culture is notable in its skill to have interaction in Vedantic discourse and while perform an ecstatic type of devotion to Krishna. The top architect of this stability used to be the scholar-devotee Jiva Gosvami (ca. 1517 - 1608). This e-book analyses Jiva Gosvami's writing in regards to the philosophy of the Vedanta culture. It concludes that Jiva's writing crosses 'disciplinary boundaries', for he introduced into discussion 4 robust streams of classical Hinduism: a number of the structures of Vedanta, the ecstatic bhakti routine, the Puranic commentarial culture, and the classy rasa concept of Sanskrit poetics. With education in and commitments to all of those traditions, Jiva Gosvami produced a surprisingly Chaitanya Vaishnava method of theology.
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