Суд над Бхагавад-гитой / Attempt to ban Bhagavad-gita

The Heart

of

Transcendental
Book
Distribution





(Experience Burns Brighter
than Imagination)







A Dialectic Synthesis of the Correlative
Dynamics of Internal and External Pure
Devotional Principles





Aindra Dasa


Dedication





This disquisition is dedicated to my beloved spiritual
master, Nitya-lila-pravista Oa Vineupada Paramahaasa 108 Cre
Cremad Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja Prabhupada, and all the
Gaudiya Vaishnava Acaryas down to the present day who
mercifully took the trouble to present volumes of both ancient
and modern transcendental literatures aimed at inculcating
upon a most degraded and suffering humanity the inestimable
treasure of vraja-bhakti-rasa.






Acknowledgement





Several years ago, upon completing a major part of this
treatise, I decided that I had better shelve the thing, despite my
deep conviction about the need for this dimension of open and
frank dissertation in contemporary Vaishnava society. I was
thinking that perhaps the best place for it would be in a grantha-
samadhi. After all, Srila Prabhupada had requested me to write a
book. He didn’t say anything about taking it to the press. I
thought it better to safeguard the peaceful prosecution of my
bhajana by avoiding the likelihood of provoking certain
anticipated institutional and interpersonal hostilities toward
myself. Perhaps after I’m dead and gone someone would
unearth the manuscript and publish it as an assortment of novel
Aindra-isms to be circulated among the curious. Otherwise,
instead of shelving it, another idea was to author it incognito
under a pen name.

Subsequently, however, in a dream, I asked Srila
Prabhupada whether he had any occasion to go through my
book to which he replied, “We will see it when it is published.”
This indicated to me his intention that the book should not only
be written but published as well. I consider it Krishna’s kind
arrangement that a number of sober-minded, pure-hearted
Vaishnavas and Vaishnavis came forward to selflessly assist me
in the endeavor to produce this work. I am ever grateful to
these individuals who sacrificed so much of their time and
energy to help me. I only regret that, in a devotional society
meant to instill fearlessness and individual thoughtfulness in its
members, the atmospheric conditions are such that devotees
opt to remain anonymous so as to circumvent the risk of being
barbarously burned at the stake by the institutional powers-
that-be for exercising their God-given right to freedom of pure
devotional expression. Anyway, Krishna knows who they are,
and I pray for His unreserved blessings upon them.


Table of Contents



Foreword



Introduction



First Heartfelt Effusion



Second Heartfelt Effusion



Third Heartfelt Effusion



Fourth Heartfelt Effusion



Glossary


Foreword