Sri Paramatma-Sandarbha

Pages: 389About the BookThe purpose of this book is very succinctly stated: The description of sambandha - the relationship between the individual living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead.In this book there is a description of Paramatma (the Supersoul) and an explanation of how the Supersoul exists in millions and millions of living entities.In this second volume of Paramatmasandarbha, Srila Jiva G osvami continues his discussion of the material nature and its relationship with the Supreme Lord.There is a unique explanation of the meaning of the Gayatri mantra, and the work closes with a discussion of the ten subjects of Srimad-Bhagavatam, showing how each and every verse of that great literature is nothing but glorification of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.About the Author"Jiva Gosvami has got six Sandarbhas, theses: Bhagavat-sandarbha, Krsna-sandarbha, Tattava-sandarbha, Priti-sandarbha, like that. So, I don't think that these books are published in English. These Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvami are so philosophically discussed that throughout the whole world, there is not a single philosopher who can defy them. We belong to the Gaudiya-sampradaya from Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, coming in the disciplic succession of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We have got immense literature to understand God. One who wants to understand God through philosophy, science, argument and logic, to supply them reading material, we have got immense literature, Vedic literature".Back of the BookWhy did the Supreme Personality of Godhead create the material world? The answer is given here in the word svamatratma-prasiddhaye, which means, "so the individual spirit souls who worshi