“Analogous in some respects to Dante’s Paradiso and more closely akin to John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, [Sri Brihad Bhagavatamrita] depicts not one but two parallel spiritual odysseys . . . even the reader new to the cosmology, mythology, and theology of Vaishnava devotion . . . may find in the Brihad Bhagavatamrita and Dig-darshini [commentary] a remarkably incisive, consistent, and revealing exploration of human spirituality and religious psychology.

“The Brhad-Bhagavatamrta and Dig-darsini [the included commentary by the author] together comprise a classic of religious literature whose integrity ought not be compromised. On a narrow scale, it is a classic in that it is the template for the theology and spiritual psychology that have remained authoritative for the Caitanya Vaishnava tradition. And though still now scarcely known beyond that tradition and those who study it, it is—or merits being so recognized—a classic on a global scale as well. Sanatana Gosvami’s chef d’oeuvre is a masterful exploration, grounded in Vaishnava devotional faith, of human spirituality and religious psychology, for the first time being made accessible in its entirety to the English-reading world.”

—Joseph T. O’Connell, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto

“Sri Brihad Bhagavatamrita is a major contribution to literature, philosophy, and religious studies—the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust is to be commended for producing a beautiful three volume edition of a sixteenth century theologian of the Caitanya school of Vaishnava Hinduism. The translator has done a superb job reincarnating the work’s profound theological ideas from the Sanskrit into English, ideas that truly speak beyond their traditional boundaries, reaching us here in the West, in modern times, lifting the human spirit to a greater world.”

—Graham M. Schweig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Director of Indic Studies Program
Christopher Newport University
Visiting Associate Professor of Sanskrit
University of Virginia
Author, Dance of Divine Love (Princeton 2005)