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The Artful Universe introduces the Vedic religion, a rich and
densely textured tradition that has influenced the religious
sensibilities of India for 3500 years or more. Engagingly written
and based on traditional as well as modern Vedic scholarship, the
book introduces Vedic ideas regarding the nature of divinity, the
structure of the sacred universe, the process of revelation, the
function of ritual as hallowed activity, and the realizations lying
behind the practice of meditation. As a way to link these diverse
aspects of Vedic religion, Mahony identifies and highlights the
important role of the divine and human imagination in the
formation, revelation, and reformation of a meaningful world.
The Bhakti S tra attributed to N rada is a collection of 84
aphoristic statements in Sanskrit, dating to the tenth to eleventh
centuries in India, on the nature of love for Divinity, which the
text describes as the highest, most exquisite form of love.
Translating, explaining and interpreting 21 of those statements,
William K. Mahony brings these teachings into our contemporary
world through his thoughtful and articulate extended reflections on
the qualities of this love and on the contours of a life oriented
toward strengthening, refining and elevating it. The book also
includes Mahony's translation of N rada's Bhakti S tra in its
entirety. Basing his reflections on the understanding that God is
absolute Love, Mahony speaks of a divine Heart present in our own
human sentiments and expressions of love in all its modes,
directions and degrees of intensity. He offers readers guidance
into ways a Heart-centered spiritual life can open them ever more
fully to the reality of Love itself.
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