Underneath the Lights

Notes from the other side of the feed

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$24.00 208 pages

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Whatever this book turns out to be, it arrives into a tradition that has been writing for five hundred years and did not wait for it. If you came to this page wanting something to read tonight, these are the three the tradition keeps returning to.

Bhagavad-gītā

Seven hundred verses: a soldier who does not want to fight, and his charioteer. The shortest way in, and the one most read outside the tradition. An afternoon, if you want it to be.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

Much longer, and the book this tradition leans on hardest. The nine practices come from a single verse of it. Not an afternoon.

Chaitanya-charitāmṛta

The life and teaching of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, written in Bengali in the sixteenth century — the tradition's account of its own founder, by people close enough to remember him.

This site sells none of these and earns nothing from them. They are in print in many translations and the translations differ sharply in what they emphasise, so it is worth seeing more than one. A library has them. The tradition page says more about where they sit.