Acting as a Way of Salvation PRODDU Santiniketan with emphasis that Visnu should

with emphasis that Visnu should be worshipped not by meditation but by doing pious acts

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India has never known among its Sastras the study of history such as Greece and Rome cultivated or aS modern Europe understands it

the names of people and places were changed into Tibetan names and places

As may be recalled from our earlier Samkhya volume

Acting as a Way of Salvation PRODDU Santiniketan with emphasis that Visnu should6th century Hindu theologian Rupa Gosvamin established a technique by which, in imitating significant figures in Krsna's dramatic world, a devotee might actually come to inhabit the world of the character. This book shows that the Hindu view of reality accepts such role playing, called Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana as a natural part of the human experience. The author explores Indian dramatic theory, Rupa's unique application of that theory to