The content is of course brilliant. These are Shyamdas’ own favorite teachings: the Bhagavat Purana literature describing the Gopis’ love for Krishna, illuminated by the Subodhini commentary of Shyamdas’ chosen philosopher-guru, Shri Vallabhacharya.

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Lover’s Life exposes the gripping spiritual love affair of the devotional practitioner who, in the spirit of the Gopis of Vrindavan, becomes enraptured with God in the form of the divine Cowherder, Shri Krishna.

“The yogi in love needs only to whisper the Beloved name, and every desire is fulfilled. To hear Shyamdas speak of the Lover’s Life is to be transported into the eternal, magical realm of love, where infinite possibilities become possible.”
– Sharon Gannon, founder of Jivamukti Yoga

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Vallabhdas, who was Shyamdas’ editor and co-translator and has been trained extensively in the translation of Brajbhasha devotional works, is undertaking a new translation of the text. In the meantime we hope that lovers of varta literature will enjoy 252 Vaishnavas Part 3 and Krishna’s Inner Circle: the Ashta Chaap Poets.

2nd edition
Hardcover, 111 pp.

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The Ashta Chaap poets display a rare combination of artistic perfection, renunciation, and passionate devotion. Their lives and songs enhance even Shri Krishna’s flavor. For hundreds of years, their songs have been sung, their life accounts told and retold in the homes of devotional practitioners all over India. How this nectar is dispersed was forecasted by the Ashta Chaap poet Paramanandadas:

Upon seeing Shri Radha’s full moon face,
an ocean of bliss swells in Krishna’s body
and overflows into Vraj and Vrindavan.

Here, it is stopped by the Yamuna River,
and there, by the Gopis.
A little of the remaining nectar is spread
throughout the three worlds,
but it never touches the practitioners
on the paths of action and knowledge.

It remains within the hearts of those
who savor the highest mood.
They slowly take it all in,
through the power of their intelligence.

Krishna makes such lilas every moment
for the sake of His bhaktas.
By the grace of Nanda’s son,
a bit of this nectar flow can be seen
in those who have contact with Supreme Bliss.

Shri Krishna loves to steal butter, soft like our most tender emotions. He is the divine Thief who may return at any moment, even now in the twenty-first century, and sweeten our lives with His love-provoking antics. It is the sincere hope of the author that the Ashta Chaap poets’ inspirations will seep into these pages and creep into the hearts of the readers.
Hardcover, 400 pp

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2006. Hardcover, 298 pp

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1998. Paperback, 114 pp.

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2007. Hardcover

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2002. Paperback 126 pp.

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