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The Upadesamrta, [1] or Nectar of Instruction, [2] is an important Gaudiya Vaishnava spiritual text, composed by Rupa Goswami. The Upadesamrta was translated into English in its entirety [ 3 ] by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada , founder acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness .
Upadesamrta (The Nectar of Instruction) – English translation by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; Nectar of Devotion – A summary study of Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; Website On Krishna (krishna.com) Online study of Rupa Goswami's Nectar of Devotion (bhakti-sastri.com)
Scholar-practitioner Shrivatsa Goswami has described Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu as “a textbook of devotional practice, an exposition on the philosophy of devotion, and a study of devotional psychology”. [243] The Nectar of Devotion “gave access to Gaudiya Vaisnavism’s most important theological treatise on devotion”. [233]
Halāhala (Sanskrit हलाहल) or Kālakūṭa (Sanskrit कालकूट, lit. ' poison of death ') [1] [2] is the name of a poison in Hindu mythology.It was created from the Ocean of Milk when the devas and the asuras churned it (see Samudra Manthana) in order to obtain amrita, the nectar of immortality.
By churning that essence, this book, aptly named Śrī Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta – the Essential Nectar of the Bhāgavatam – has become manifest. Throughout this book, all topics regarding devotional service to Bhagavān have been presented.
Depiction of a Vaishnava, a performer of this practice. Sharanagati (Sanskrit: शरणागति; IAST: Śaraṇāgati) or Prapatti (Sanskrit: प्रपत्ति; IAST: Prapatti), is the process of total surrender to God (Narayana-Krishna) in the tradition of Vaishnavism.
Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās held that the erotic flavor of devotion was the superior rasa of divine love. [4] As such, a central practice in their tradition was sexual yoga, which they held re-enacted the divine love between Radha and Krishna and allowed them to taste the flavor (rasa) of the divine love through their own personal experience.
The Rig hymns, the Yajur maxims, the Sama songs, the Atharva verses and deeper, secret doctrines of Upanishads are represented as the vehicles of rasa (nectar), that is the bees. [65] The nectar itself is described as "essence of knowledge, strength, vigor, health, renown, splendor". [ 66 ]