Vallabha Cult and Sri Harirayaji

The book presents Sri Harirayaji’s tendency of Bhakti-Philosophy, especially of Vipralambhasrngarabhakti, sweet kind of Krsna-devotion, which is established as the climax of God-realization in the term of Divine Love.

The beginning portion of the book introduces origin and development of Vallabha-school and fixes the place of Sri Harirayaji among his predecessors. The first three chapters are colourfully devoted to describe the life and the works of Sri Harirāyaji. The last two chapters of this are actually the most important essence and the special contribution in the field of Bhakti Philosophy. The various factors of Vallabha-principles of Prema-Laksanā Bhakti are eleborated in the light of Vipralambha-Srngärarasātmaka-Bhakti, the sumum bonum of God-realization.

The last chapter gives the comparative study of Sri Harirayaji’s eye-view of Vipralari bha-Bhakti with both nationally and internationally and other saintly experiences of devotion, humbly efforts to establish the superiority of Vipralambha-Srngara as the sweet love-experience of God Bhakti, embracing the whole universe Krsna, the Lord of Love and Beauty.

The author has tried to prove that the experience of Vipralambha-Bhakti is eternal and even superior than that of Samyoga aspect of Bhakti, giving various quotations from the books of Bhaktisastra. The illustration of the Vraja-Gopis is only followed by Sri Harirayaji to establish the superiority of Vipralambha-type of devotion

Sri Harirayaji was a devotee, who experienced this kind of separation from Lord Krsna throughout his long in all His Lilás simultaneously even in Life and proved the highest kind of separation Bhakti, i.e., eternal union of God Krsna, sweet delight in Vipralaribha-Sprigara sefe Divine power to sustain His outward absence, which gave him अलौकिक सामर्थ्य -Divine power to sustain the life, enduring ever the pain of separation.