Topic: Bhajana Rahasya

Bhajana Rahasya – Chapter 1

Bhajana Rahasya was written by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in 1902 as a supplement to his Hari-nāma-cintāmaṇi. The text has eight chapters corresponding with the eight verses of Śrī Caitanya’s Śikṣāṣṭakam and each chapter is to be read during three hour periods during twenty-four hours. Each chapter also explains one of the eight divisions of the process of bhakti according to Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Each Sanskrit verse that Bhaktivinoda quotes is accompanied by his own Bengali verse translation. This English translation is based upon the original version of Bhajana Rahasya that Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda published from Bhakti Bhavan in Kolkata in 1902 and subsequently published in his Sajjana Toṣaṇī journal in the same year.

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