Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One

Mantras, Initiation and Preparing for Worship (Chapters 1–5). Critical Edition and Annotated Translation

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Sanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it presents a fascinating meeting between this ecstatic new religious movement and older, Brahminical tradition.
On the basis of eleven manuscripts, this important text has now been for the first time been critically edited. In his extensive introduction, MÃ¥ns Broo engages with many of the questions that have vexed earlier scholars of this text (such as who really was the author?) by exploring its extensive intertextualities.
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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
Scholars of Hindu and particularly Vaiṣṇava ritualism and history, but also to Vaiṣṇava practitioners wishing to deepen their understanding of a key text.
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