Ascending notions of Personhood in the Bhagavata Purana Dedicated to Professor Klaus K. Klostermaier on the occasion of his Seventy-fifth Anniversary
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v2i1.45Keywords:
Bhagavata Purana, bhakti, hinduism, Krishnaism, personalism, Puranas, rasa, VaishnavismAbstract
The paper looks at one of the main themes of the Bhagavata Purana, which is the theme of ascending notions of Divine Personhood; these sequential notions are arranged in hierarchical order, resembling a ladder. they evoke various emotional states, each more complex and more intense then the previous one, beginning with a state that evokes santa and culminating in a state that evokes srngara.
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