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Es handelt sich bei diesem Buch um die gesammelten Gebete des großen Vaishnava-Heiligen Sripad Raghunatha Das Goswami. Sie wurden Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts niedergeschrieben und erfahren noch heute ihre Gültigkeit. Kommentiert wurden diese Gebete vom momentanen Mahanta des heiligen Ortes Sri Radhakunda, Srila Ananta das Babaji. Die Publikation ist in Englisch.
Pandit Sri Ananta Das Babaji Maharaja is a leading religious figure in the contemporary Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. Based at Radha-kunda, he is a respected lecturer and the author of dozens of volumes of literature.
He has initiated many devotees into the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, including people from Vraja, from Bengal, and from dozens of Western countries. He has been elected as the Mahanta of Radha Kunda, thus being the 34th representive of the seat of Sri Raghunatha Dasa Goswami. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost teachers of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition on account of his voluminous and comprehensive writings as well as due to his humility and purity of heart...
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Raghunatha das Goswami was born in 1495. He lived as a householder until his age of 19. Shortly thereafter, he started to go on a pilgrimage to meet Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He lived for 19 years together with Mahaprabhu in Jagannatha Puri and then for the last 41 in Vrindavana, namely in Sri Radhakunda. He was the first spiritual mayor (mahanta) there at Sri Radhakunda and he wrote down all his books in a humble cottage near the Holy Lake. Srila Ananta das Babaji: Pandit Sri Ananta Das Babaji Maharaja was born in the district of Jharikhanda in 1927. During the earlier years of his life he held the occupation of a teacher, living with his wife and children. Having heard of the fame of Sri Kunja Bihari Das Babaji Maharaja, a renowned bhajananandi saint at Radha Kunda who was influential in the area of Jharikhanda during his householder life, in 1950 Sri Ananta Dasji decided to leave for a pilgrimage to meet the saint. Having arrived at Radha Kunda, he met with the mahatma andreceived initiation into a disciplic succession descending from Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Srimati Jahnava Mata through the descendants of Sri Dhananjaya Pandit. During the following two months, Sri Kunja Bihari Das Babaji taught him the mysteries of the philosophy, worship and meditation practiced in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. At the end of this visit, despite his desire to stay at Radha Kunda, Sri Kunja Bihari Das Babaji ordered him to return back to his village to preach the message of Sri Caitanyadeva, initiating people into the practice of spiritual life. On the order of his guru, Sri Ananta Dasji returned to his family, teaching the local people and initiating some two hundred disciples over the ten following years. Eventually he decided to renounce the world, departing for a journey to Radha Kunda, this time to stay for good. Having arrived at this holiest of all the holy places, he received the cloth of an ascetic from Sri Kunja Bihari Das Babaji. Over the decadesto come, he engaged himself in a deep study of the Gaudiya canon of sacred texts, at the same time becoming more and more deeply absorbed in bhajana, both in the external and the esoteric internal methods of worship.
