Srila Gurudeva (The Supreme Treasure)
by Swami Bhaktivedanta Madhava Maharaja | 2010 | 179,005 words
This page relates ‘Dedication’ of the book dealing with life and teachings of Srila Gurudeva, otherwise known as Shri Shrimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. Srila Gurudeva is a learned and scholar whose teachings primarily concern the spiritual beauties of Bhakti—devotional service and the qualities and pastimes of Shri Krishna.
Dedication
I am presenting this book as an offering of devotion to our dearly beloved jagad-guru, oṃ viṣṇupāda paramahaṃsa parivrājakācārya aṣṭottara-śata
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
who has mercifully shown us an unadulterated life of utter dedication and loving service to his beloved Guru Mahārāja, nitya-līlā-praviṣṭa oṃ viṣṇupāda paramahaṃsa parivrājakācārya aṣṭottara-śata Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja.
This is an account of the most auspicious life, qualities and teachings of Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja.
“Śrīla Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja is expert in describing kṛṣṇa-līlā. He is endowed with the qualities of magnanimity and sweetness, and he is the best of great souls. Because he is always relishing Kṛṣṇa’s sweetness, he is able to freely distribute that sweetness to others. I bow down and place my head at his lotus feet.”
Because he loves to speak hari-kathā and relishes the sweet trancendental name, form, qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord, he is the most qualified to erradicate from ones heart the most dangerous enemy in the path of bhakti, the deceitful entrapping fallacy of impersonalism.