Why Another Book on Krishna?It is a fair question. The literature on Krishna in Sanskrit alone is so vast that no single scholar could read it in a lifetime of dedicated study. In English, the last fifty years have produced a rich and serious body of scholarship. This book does something different from all of them. It brings together, for the first time in a single volume accessible to the general educated reader, three distinct modes of engagement that are usually kept apart: rigorous textual scholarship, direct contemplative and professional experience, and practical application to the specific conditions of contemporary life. The Bhagavata Purana is not a text about the ancient world. It is a text about the permanent conditions of human existence, clothed in the garments of the ancient world. Our task - as physician, yogi, astrologer, social scientist, educator, and practitioners who have spent our professional lives in the direct service of human flourishing - has been to show what lives beneath those garments. It is traditional in the Vedic lineage to regard genuine sacred literature as shruti - that which is heard - rather than smriti - that which is remembered. We acknowledge that the best of it arrived with the quality of gift: unearned, unexpected, more than we knew we had in us.We did not write about Krishna. We allowed Krishna to write through us. Whether we succeeded is for you, the reader, to judge. Dr. Ajay Sharma & Arti Sharma , Being at Mathura & Vrindavan
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Arti Sharma & Dr. Ajay Sharma
1. Dr. Ajay Sharma Former Senior Deputy Chief Medical Officer - NHPC LTD, a Navaratna, Govt of India PSU, · Senior Corporate Leader · Yogi · Vedic Astrologer · Spiritual Seeker · Author-16 Published Books. Dr. Ajay Sharma is one of India's most distinctive voices at the intersection of modern medicine, ancient Vedic science and contemplative practice.The encounter with his patients' deepest suffering - suffering that modern medicine could address at the physical level but frequently could not touch at the levels of meaning, purpose, grief and existential crisis - drove Dr. Sharma toward the sustained study of Yoga philosophy, Vedanta, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology (Jyotish) that has now extended for forty uninterrupted years. Dr. Sharma has been a student of the Bhagavata Purana and the Bhagavad Gita for forty years, attending intensive study programmes at Vedic learning centres in Vrindavan, Varanasi, Rishikesh and Pune, and maintaining a daily personal practice that includes Bhagavata Purana recitation, mantra japa, pranayama and meditation. He has studied with masters of Hatha, Raja and Jnana Yoga across India; he is a qualified Jyotish practitioner with expertise in both the Parashari and Jaimini systems; and he has practised and taught Pranayama, Dhyana and the complete ashtanga path of Patanjali for over three decades. This book is the culmination of four decades of study, practice and the systematic application of Krishnic wisdom to the challenges of professional life, personal health and spiritual development.
2. Arti SharmaEducator · Social Scientist · Vedic Literature Scholar · Sociologist · Bhakti Practitioner · Author, with 5 published books, Arti Sharma is one of India's foremost educators and a scholar of Vedic literature, sociology and the sociology of spiritual traditions whose work spans thirty-six years of teaching, research and writing. Arti Sharma undertook a sustained personal devotional engagement with the Vedic spiritual tradition that has deepened continuously across thirty-six years. She has studied the primary texts of the Bhakti tradition - the Bhagavata Purana, the Bhagavad Gita, the Gita Govinda, the poetry of Surdas, Mirabai, Tukaram and Kabir - in the original Sanskrit, Braj Bhasha. She has designed educational programmes that bring Krishna's life and teachings into the modern classroom without religious proselytising She lives with her husband Dr. Ajay Sharma in New Delhi, Mathura, Vrindavan & Dehradun-Near Himalayas.
