Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One

Måns Broo, Ph.D. (2003), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a Lecturer of the Study of Religions at that university. His recent publications include a critical edition and annotated translation of the Rādhā Tantra (Routledge, 2017).

Preface



Introduction

 1 Introduction to the Text

 2 Who Wrote the Haribhaktivilāsa?

 3 Summary of Contents

 4 Style and Method of the Text and Commentary

 5 Historical Context of the Haribhaktivilāsa

 6 The Theology of the Haribhaktivilāsa

 7 Intertextualities

 8 The Haribhaktivilāsa in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava History

 9 Sources for the Critical Edition

 10 Conventions in the Critical Apparatus and Translation



Critically Edited Text and Translation



1 On the Guru

 Declaration of Contents

 The Reason for Approaching a Guru

 Approaching a Guru

 The Mandatoriness of Approaching a Guru

 Specific Characteristics of a Guru

 Characteristics of a Non-guru

 Characteristics of a Disciple

 Those to Be Rejected

 Observation

 Specific Rules for Serving the Guru

 The Great Sin That Otherwise Will Befall Both

 The Disciple’s Prayer

 The Greatness of the Lord

 The Greatness of Vaiṣṇava Mantras

 There, the Greatness of the Twelve-Syllable and the Eight-Syllable Mantras

 There Also, That Of The Twelve-Syllable Mantra

 Of the Eight-syllable Mantra

 That of the King of Mantras, the Anuṣṭubh of Śrī Narasiṃha

 The Greatness of Mantras of Rama

 The Greatness of Mantras of Lord Gopāla

 The Greatness of the Eighteen-Syllable Mantra

 Deliberation on Eligibility

 The Determination of Siddha, Sādhya and so on

 Mantras That Are an Exception to This

 Purification of Mantras



2 On Initiation

 Rules for Initiation

 The Mandatoriness of Initiation

 The Greatness of Initiation

 The Time for Initiation

 Consideration of Days

 Consideration of Lunar Mansions

 Consideration of Lunar Days

 Exceptions

 Rules for Constructing the Pavilion

 Rules for Fashioning the Pit

 Rules for the Initiatory Maṇḍala

 The Worship That Is a Part of Initiation

 First, the Procedure for Establishing the Waterpot

 Rules for Establishing the Conch

 Rules for Worshipping the Lord in the Waterpot

 Rules for the Initiatory Fire Sacrifice

 The Divinities of the Limbs

 The Eight Forms

 Measures for the Ingredients of the Fire Offerings

 Rules for Guru and Disciple

 These Were the Duties of the Preceding Day. Now the Duties of the Day of Initiation

 Rules for the Anointment

 The Mantra of Ceremonial Bathing

 Rules for Imparting the Mantra

 The Regulations

 The Procedure for Initiation in the Blessed Varāha Purāṇa

 Simplified Initiation

 Instruction

 The Greatness of Bestowing the Mantra



3 On Purification

 The Mandatoriness of Worship for the Initiated

 Sadācāra

 The Mandatoriness of Sadācāra

 The Greatness of Sadācāra

 Daily Duties

 The Morning Glorification and Remembrance

 First: The Mandatoriness of Remembrance

 The Greatness of Remembrance

 It Surpasses Bathing at All Tīrthas

 It Is Supremely Purifying

 It Uproots Sins

 It Liberates One from All Misfortune

 It Uproots Bad Habits

 It Causes All Auspiciousness

 It Bestows the Fruits of All Holy Observances

 It Causes the Excellence of Rituals

 It Surpasses All Rituals

 It Removes All Fears

 It Awards Liberation

 It Propitiates the Lord

 It Leads One to the Vaikuṇṭha World

 It Leads to Sameness of Form

 It Subdues the Blessed Lord

 It Is the Highest Fruit in Itself

 Morning Obeisances

 The Prayer

 Words of Obeisance

 The Morning Meditation

 The Greatness of Meditation

 It Destroys Sins

 It Removes the Faults of the Kali Age

 It Gives One Eligibility for All Rituals

 It Affords One Liberation

 It Brings One to Vaikuṇtha

 It Leads to Sameness of Form

 It Awards the Highest Fruit on Its Own Accord

 Waking the Blessed Lord

 Removing Nirmālya

 Cleansing the Blessed Mouth

 The Greatness of Offering the Blessed Tooth-Twig

 The Auspicious Nīrājana

 The Preliminaries of the Morning Bath

 Rules for Attending to the Call of Nature

 Rules for Cleansing

 When Only Passing Urine

 Rules for Ācamana

 Vaiṣṇava Ācamana

 Rules for Brushing the Teeth

 The Mandatoriness of Brushing the Teeth

 Days When the Tooth-Twig Is Forbidden

 The Substitute for These Days

 The Exception to This

 Tooth-Twigs

 Arranging the Hair and so Forth

 Bathing

 The Mandatoriness of Bathing

 The Greatness of Bathing

 Rules for Bathing

 A Detail

 Further Details

 The Mantra for Taking the Lord’s Foot-Water on the Head

 The Greatness of Sprinkling Oneself with the Lord’s Foot-Water

 And Its Mandatoriness

 The General Libation to the Gods and Others

 Vedic Sandhyā

 Tantric Sandhyā

 Its Rules

 The Kāma Gāyatrī

 Another Opinion on the Rules for Tantric Sandhyā

 Rules for Worship of the Lord in Water

 Specific Libations to the Gods and Others

 Considering the Proper Attitude at Bathing and so on



4 On the Ornaments of the Vaiṣṇava

 Cleaning the Lord’s Temple

 The Greatness of Cleaning the Temple

 The Greatness of Plastering

 The Greatness of Sprinkling

 The Greatness of Maṇḍalas

 Characteristics of a Svastika

 Hoisting Flags, Banners and so on

 The Greatness of Hoisting Flags

 The Greatness of Hoisting Banners

 The Greatness of Raising Festoons of Leaves and Trunks of Banana Trees

 Cleaning the Seat, Vessels, Clothes and so on

 The Seat

 Metal Vessels

 Clothes and so on

 Grains and so on

 Picking Flowers, Tulasī and so on for the Sake of Worship

 Rules for Bathing at Home

 Bathing with Warm Water

 The Forbidden Days

 Bathing with Myrobalan

 Bathing with Sesame

 Bathing with Oil

 The Greatness of Anointing with Tulasī Water

 Rules for Wearing Clothes

 The Seat

 Rules for the Seat

 The Rules for the Twelve Tilakas

 The Crown Mantra

 The Mandatoriness of the Vertical Marks

 The Greatness of the Vertical Mark

 Rules for Drawing the Vertical Mark

 The Mandatoriness of the Empty Middle Portion of the Vertical Mark

 Therefore, the Statement on the Characteristics of Hari’s Temple

 Regarding the Rules for Which Fingers to Use When Applying Tilaka

 The Types of Clay for the Vertical Mark

 There, the Greatness of Gopīcandana

 The Greatness of the Vertical Mark Made with Gopīcandana

 The Greatness of Marks Made with Mud from the Roots of Tulasī

 The Mandatoriness of Wearing the Mudrās

 The Greatness of Wearing the Mudrās

 Rules for Wearing the Mudrās

 Characteristics of the Disc and so on

 Wearing Mālās and so on

 Rules for Wearing Mālās

 The Mandatoriness of Wearing Mālās

 The Greatness of Wearing Mālās

 Rules for Performing Sandhyā at Home

 Worship of the Blessed Guru

 The Greatness of the Blessed Guru

 The Exception to This

 The Result of Not Devoting Oneself to the Guru



5 On the Objects

 Worship at the Gate

 Worship Inside the House

 The Seat for Worship

 The Seat Mantra

 Seats

 Specific Faults and Merits of Seats

 Placing the Vessels

 The Vessels and Their Greatness

 Establishing the Auspicious Pitcher

 The Ingredients for Arghya and so on

 The Auspicious Peace

 Removal of Obstacles

 Bowing to the Blessed Gurus

 Bhūtaśuddhi

 And This is the Procedure

 Prāṇāyāma

 The Greatness of Prāṇāyāma

 First, Mātṛkā Nyāsa

 The Inner Mātṛkā Nyāsa

 Keśavādi Nyāsa

 The Meditation

 The Blessed Forms

 The Śaktis

 Tattva Nyāsa

 A Further Special Form of Prāṇāyāma

 The Times, Numbers and so on

 Pīṭha Nyāsa

 The Pīṭha Mantra

 Remembering the Sage and so on

 Aṅga Nyāsa

 Akṣara Nyāsa

 Pada Nyāsa

 Rṣyādi Nyāsa

 The Five Mudrās

 Procedure for Meditating on the Blessed Lord

 The Inner Sacrifice

 The Procedure for Prayer

 Establishing the Conch

 Worship of the Seat in One’s Own Body

 Mantra Aṅga Nyāsa, Etc., on the Limbs of the Lord

 Internal Worship with External Items

 The Greatness of the Internal Sacrifice

 The External Worship

 The Objects of Worship

 The Blessed Forms

 Characteristics of the Blessed Forms

 The Twenty-Four Forms of the Siddhārta Saṃhitā

 The Śālagrāma Stones

 Their Merits and Faults Connected with Colour and so on

 And These Faults Relate to Worshipping with Desires

 Their Different Names Depending on Their Different Characteristics

 The Greatness of the Śālagrāma Stone

 The Special Result of Worshipping Many

 The Prohibition against Buying or Selling Them

 The Prohibition against Installation

 The Best of All Objects

 The Mandatoriness of Worshipping the Śālagrāma Stone

 The Greatness of Uniting the Śālagrāma Stone with the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā

 The Characteristics of the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā

 The Greatness of the Stone Marked with the Discs of Dvārakā

 Their Different Fruits according to Their Different Number of Discs

 Faults and Merits and Whether to Worship or Not Depending on Colour and so on



Appendix 1: The Greatness of the Ten-Syllable Mantra

Appendix 2: The Meditation on Kṛṣṇa in Gautamīya Tantra 10.142cd–159ab

Appendix 3: Maṇḍalas in the Text

Bibliography

Index