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Light of the Bhāgavata
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 |  | Of all the classics in the vast treasure of eternal India's Vedic literature, Srimad-Bhagavatam is the most sublime and beautiful, because it expresses the essence of spiritual truth in beautiful poetic passages. In the Tenth Canto of this incomparable masterpiece, there is a description of the fall of India in the rainy season, as a vast metaphor to explain different aspects of transcendental wisdom. For example, the cloudy skies of autumn nights, covering the moon and stars, representing the materialism of the present age, which hides the true wisdom of the human mind.
| | | When in 1961, His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was invited to attend the Congress for the Cultivation of the Human Spirit, in Japan, conceived the idea of presenting the description of the fall of Bhagavatam through a series of paintings accompanied by two texts. The title was put Light of the Bhagavata. Selecting (forty-eight or forty-eight) visually striking verses, Srila Prabhupada prepared detailed comments to the verses, as well as notes to guide the artists in the design of the boxes. Seeing that it would be unable to attend the conference, left the project.
| | | Over time, some disciples of Srila Prabhupada, recognizing the importance of literary and artistic Light of the Bhagavata, commissioned the renowned Chinese artist Li Yun Sheng Madame execution of the illustrations just as he had conceived. Now, these exquisite paintings in this volume, along with the original text. In The Light of the Bhagavata, evocative prose Srila Prabhupada and attractive paintings of Madame Li, in classic Gongbi, combine to give a fresh and revealing insight into the vital and enduring truths of the oldest spiritual tradition in the world
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