Vrindavan das thakur biography of albert
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Bhakti Hridaya Bon
Bhakti Hridaya Bon (Sanskrit: भक्ति हृदय वन, IAST: Bhakti Hṛdaya Vana), also known as Swami Bon (Baharpur, 23 March 1901 – Vrindavan, 7 July 1982),[1] was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati and a guru in the Gaudiya Math following the philosophy of bhakti, specifically that of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Gaudiya Vaishnava theology. At the time of his death, he left behind thousands of Bengali disciples in India.
Reference books on Bon's life include My First Year in England, On the path to Vaikuntha, Vaikunther Pathe (in Bengali), and Viraha-vedana (in Bengali). He is noted for his translation into English of Rupa Goswami's Sanskrit classic, Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu;[2] as well as his educational activities in Vraja Mandala, considered a sacred area associated with Krishna, located between Delhi and Agra in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Swami Bon was the rector of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy in Vrindavan,[3][unreliable source?] and founder of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Primary School in Nandagram, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh.[4] He initiated a few Westerners, such as Asim Krishna Das (Allan A. Shapiro); Lalitananda Bon (Richard Shaw Brown); and Vamana dasa (Walther Eidlitz), who was c
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(1) Narayan Maharaj's comments on Sva-likhita-jivani
(2) Lalita Prasad Thakur and Bhaktivinoda's meat-eating.
This version is a little shorter, since I have here been able to rely on the testimony of Shukavak Das and the photos from the MS.
This file also includes some comments on the new translation and acknowledgements and appreciation at the end.
Though it seems barely worth mentioning, there are unfortunately some who doubt the authenticity of the Jīvanī. These persons have put forth various speculations on why it may be a forgery or have been tampered with in some way. This seems to have arisen out of a misunderstanding of the genre and mentality of Bhaktivinoda Thakur in writing his autobiography.
Perhaps these suspicions -- always coming from those who have little or no expertise in Bengali or Bengali history -- arise out of a fear that anything that disagrees with the image of the Thakur as someone who descended from the Spiritual World, unblemished in any respect by matter, as the incarnation of Gadadhar or his shakti, even Radha herself, in order to teach bhakti to the conditioned souls and bring them back to Godhead, could not possibly be genuine. Their idealized image would be con
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