Sri Priti Sandarbha (Set of 2 Volumes)

The Priti-sandarbha is the sixth and final treatise in the monumental Ṣaṭ-Sandarbha series of Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the preeminent philosopher of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition. In this work, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī discusses prema-bhakti—pure love of Godhead—as the ultimate goal of life, explaining its nature, symptoms, and transformative power.

Drawing from the deepest layers of Vedic scripture, he establishes that prema is not a product of the material energy but the manifestation of the Lord’s own pleasure potency (hlādinī-śakti). It is the bliss in which the Supreme Lord Himself resides, and when awakened in the devotee’s heart, it melts all material desires, replacing them with unalloyed devotion. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī also clarifies that ecstatic symptoms alone do not indicate perfection; true āśaya-śuddhi—a heart completely free from material attraction—is the hallmark of spiritual maturity.

Śrīla Prabhupāda often emphasized the unmatched philosophical depth of the Sandarbhas, declaring that no philosopher in the world could refute them. In his purports to the Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, he highlighted the Priti-sandarbha’s explanation of the final stage of devotional perfection, where a devotee’s service is causeless, purely spiritual, and centered only on Kṛṣṇa.

This edition of the Priti-sandarbha, rendered into English, offers seekers, scholars, and practitioners an unparalleled exploration of divine love—the supreme fruit of all spiritual endeavor. It is not merely a text to be read but a guide to be lived, leading the heart from knowledge to realization, and from realization to the eternal embrace of the Supreme Lord.