Premikaguru Or Premabhakti and Sadhana Paddhati

Preface Sri Gurudev is the embodiment of saccidananda brahma and brings welfare to one and all igniting the light of jnana and prema. By the inexorable blessing of Sri Gurudev, Brahma, Visnu and Siva accomplish the job of creation, preservation and dissolution offering their utmost sincere service to Gurudev. It is by the grace of Sri Gurudev, Nilachala Saraswata Sangha, Puri is able to get Prernikaguru translated into English and publish its English version. It will evidently overcome the linguistic barrier and ensure the love-starved humanity to be flooded with the overflowing stream of love envisaged in this monumental book. We pray at the lotus feet of pujya Gurudev, Sri Sri Thakur Nigamanandadev to liberate human race from unending darkness of ignorance and enkindle the mind and heart of man by giving atmajnana (knowledge of self). Infact, an atmajnani is a parama premiha (supeme lover of the Divine).

Prema (love) is the substratum of creation and quintessence of life. Love is at the beginning, love is at the middle and love is at the end of life. So love abounds totality. Life without love is like a river without water. When it contracts to personal comfort, selfish interest and sensual gratification, it is not prema but Kama (lust). But when it expands to the paradigm of world-welfare and consolidates love for the Divine, it is prema. So prema is ever expanding divine feeling without an iota of mundane desire. Therefore prema is niskama in character. Faith condenses to bhateti, bhakti condenses to bhava and bhava condenses to mahabhava or prema. Prema is immotal in this motal world. Love is the self of the Divine and the Divine is the embodiment of love.

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