The guru disciple relationship, everyone wants to be happy, living entities want happiness, and this world is arranged so that no one can ever be happy. The truth is We are not endeavouring for God consciousness, this is, but we can understand by the grace of the disciplic succession, Vedic authority. And even Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, wants to be controlled by love and affection.

Sri Upadesamrta gives instructions indispensable for practitioners, sadhakas, devotees, of the devotional path, bhakti. Without following these instructions, entering the realm of pure devotion and especially following the intricate and elevated path of spontaneous devotion, raganuga bhakti, is not only difficult, but impossible. This unprecedented edition contains commentaries by Radha ramana dasa Gosvami, Bhaktivinoda Thakura etc.

Vedic culture of India is steeped in esoteric knowledge, and has developed to such a degree that the sages in this culture have discovered the soul. They have also discovered God within and without. Lord Krishna Himself transmits transcendental knowledge through an unbroken succession of spiritual masters and disciples and the true nature of devotion in this book describes those pastimes.