Sri Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava (Volume 1- Sambandha)
Publisher: Touchstone Media
Format: Hardback
Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava presents the right questions and their right answers. It's based on the teachings of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who revived the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, a saint from the 16th century who is considered an incarnation of Lord Krishna. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura worked hard to revive Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s sankirtana movement, which had almost disappeared by the mid-1800s because of some groups called sahajiyas and the British rule in India. He restored the purity and respect of Vaishnavism among people in his time and laid the foundation for spreading the mission worldwide in the future. He wrote more than a hundred books about devotion during his life, which are as important as Vedic scriptures. But nowadays, people don't have much time to read religious texts, and it's hard to understand such vast teachings. So, Sundarananda Vidyavinoda Prabhu, one of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's important students, studied all of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's writings deeply. Following his spiritual master's orders, he made up questions about sambandha (relationship), abhidheya (practice), and prayojana (goal), and then he answered them using Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's own writings. The result is the book called Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava. This is the first volume (Sambandha).