This book presents for Western readers the life and teachings of a recent acarya in a Gaudiya Vaisnava environment. Here we directly see the activities and interactions of deeply realized vaisnavas within an authentic Gaudiya Vaisnava culture. We are also privileged to witness the guru-disciple relationship in a line of empowered acaryas , and to see a variety of expressions of Guru-nistha.

As one of the nava-laksana, the nine processes of devotional service, Arcana refers to worshipping the Deity form of the Lord. ‘Arcana Dipika’ teaches us how this service is performed and how to please the Lord through this process of worship. By the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Six Gosvamis and other contemporary followers of Sriman Mahaprabhu, and more recently Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja, the process of Deity worship has been successfully introduced to the entire world.

This booklet is for those who seek the positive principle in life, the force of pure love. That force is far beyond material enjoyment and higher still than impersonal liberation. It is such a powerful force that it can ultimately transport one to the spiritual world, a realm in which only sweet love and harmony exist.

This book especially investigates the philosophy of Sri Sankaracarya, whose philosophical misinterpretations of the Vedas were so influential that he succeeded in driving Buddhism out of India Furthermore, ‘Beyond Nirvana’ demonstrates that Sankaracarya's teachings are in the final analysis, ironically nothing but a recycled form of Buddhism – and in no way true to the original Vedic wisdom known as Sanatana-dharma.

This compilation of verses is known as bhakti rasayana, or the nectar tonic of bhakti rasa. In the final chapter of Sri Brhad -bhagavatamrta, Srila Sanatana Gosvami has quoted verses from the tenth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam which Pariksit Maharaja spoke to his mother Uttara. Stringing these verses together, Sanatana Gosvami has composed a necklace for the benefit of the sadhakas (practitioners of Bhakti) of this world, which stimulate the sentiment of bhakti in their hearts.