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Nārada Bhakti Sūtra (Nārada’s Aphorisms on Devotion)

नारदभक्तिसूत्र

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Eighty-four aphorisms defining devotion (bhakti) as supreme love for God, immortal in nature. After quoting the definitions of Pārāśarya (worship), Garga (sacred stories) and Śāṇḍilya (delight in the Self), it gives Nārada’s own: to consecrate every act to God and to feel extreme anguish at forgetting Him, like the gopīs of Vraja. It holds that bhakti is superior to action, knowledge and yoga because it is its own fruit; teaches its means —renunciation, ceaseless worship, hearing and singing the divine qualities and, above all, the grace of great souls—; declares it ineffable, “like taste for a mute”; distinguishes secondary from supreme devotion and lists eleven forms of attachment to God.

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Authorship note

Ascribed by tradition to Nārada, who speaks of himself in the third person (sūtra 19) and closes it as “what Nārada has spoken” (sūtra 84). Uncertain, medieval date: it presupposes the cult of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs of Vraja; Flood considers it possibly twelfth-century.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Bhakti Sûtras of Nârada (Sacred Books of the Hindus 7)

    Pāṇini Office (Allahabad)

    Translation: Nandalal Sinha

    Con el comentario del traductor; ejemplar digitalizado fechado en 1917.

  • Narada-Bhakti-Sutras (free translation)

    The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, vol. 6

    Translation: Swami Vivekananda

    Traducción libre dictada en Estados Unidos; dominio público.

  • Narada Bhakti Sutra: The Aphorisms of Love

    Art of Living Publication, 2005

    Translation: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (comentario)

    ISBN 9788178110295

  • Narada Bhakti Sutras

    Advaita Ashrama (Mayavati), 1999

    ISBN 9788175051997

  • Nārada-bhakti-sūtra: The Secrets of Transcendental Love — Narada

    Nārada-bhakti-sūtra: The Secrets of Transcendental Love

    Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1998

    Translation: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda y Satsvarūpa Dāsa Goswami

    ISBN 9780892132737

  • The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras — Narada

    The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

    Inner Traditions, 1998

    Translation: Prem Prakash

    ISBN 9780892816644

  • Aphorisms on the Gospel of Divine Love, or Nārada Bhakti Sūtras — Narada

    Aphorisms on the Gospel of Divine Love, or Nārada Bhakti Sūtras

    Sri Ramakrishna Math (Madrás), 1980

    Translation: Swami Tyagisananda

    ISBN 9788171203291

    Primera edición 1943.

  • Narada's Way of Divine Love: The Bhakti Sutras

    Vedanta Press (Hollywood), 1971

    Translation: Swami Prabhavananda

    ISBN 9780874810271

    Introducción de Christopher Isherwood. Reedición de 2000: ISBN 9780874810547.

  • Nârada Sûtra: An Inquiry into Love (Bhakti-jijnâsâ)

    Longmans, Green & Co. (Londres), 1896

    Translation: E. T. Sturdy

    Primera traducción inglesa; dominio público en EE. UU. (Sturdy murió en 1957).

Italiano

  • Narada Bhakti Sutra

    CreateSpace, 2016

    Translation: Y. Sharma; Shivam Trinetrah

    ISBN 9781540398093

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • नारदभक्तिसूत्रम् (texto en Wikisource)

    Wikisource

हिन्दी

  • Nārada Bhakti Sūtra (sarala bhāṣānuvāda sahita)

    Gita Press (Gorakhpur)

    Translation: Hanuman Prasad Poddar

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Sources

  • Wikisource en sánscrito: «नारदभक्तिसूत्रम्» (Nārada Bhakti Sūtra, 84 aforismos).

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