Book description
This is a condensed version of a long Purana of 18,000 verses. By means of stories from the lives of avatars, sages, and kings, it popularized the teaching of the Vedas. To study it is the best of all ways to become acquainted with the living religion of India today.…
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This is a condensed version of one of India’s Puranas. The 19th-century saint Ramakrishna described it as follows: “It is fried in the butter of Knowledge and steeped in the honey of Love.”
One example of that knowledge: Try as we might, we cannot know the nature of the Divine, as it existed before us. (The machine cannot know its maker.) What we can do, however, is to worship the miracle that is our own existence, and that might get us where we need to go.
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