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Why Another Book on Krishna?It is a fair question. The literature on Krishna in Sanskrit alone is so vast that no single scholar could read it in a lifetime of dedicated study. In English, the last fifty years have produced a rich and serious body of scholarship. This book does something different from all of them. It brings together, for the first time in a single volume accessible to the general educated reader, three distinct modes of engagement that are usually kept apart: rigorous textual scholarship, direct contemplative and professional experience, and practical application to the specific conditions of contemporary life. The Bhagavata Purana is not a text about the ancient world. It is a text about the permanent conditions of human existence, clothed in the garments of the ancient world. Our task - as physician, yogi, astrologer, social scientist, educator, and practitioners who have spent our professional lives in the direct service of human flourishing - has been to show what lives beneath those garments. It is traditional in the Vedic lineage to regard genuine sacred literature as shruti - that which is heard - rather than smriti - that which is remembered. We acknowledge that the best of it arrived with the quality of gift: unearned, unexpected, more than we knew we had in us.We did not write about Krishna. We allowed Krishna to write through us. Whether we succeeded is for you, the reader, to judge. Dr. Ajay Sharma & Arti Sharma, Being at Mathura & Vrindavan

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