Gita Bhusana
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Gita Bhusana, commentary on the Bhagavad Gita by Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, translated by HH Bhanu Swami
"With care, Vidyabhusana has attended upon this commentary called Srimad Gita Bhusana. O devotees who are greedy for the sweetness of prema of Sri Govinda and who are filled with mercy, please purify this work." Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. Translated by HH Bhanu Swami
"In Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana's commentary, we will find the influence of both Ramanujacarya in particular verses and Madhvacarya in the general philosophy. In his refutation of impersonal interpretations of the Gita, he takes some of the arguments from Sri Ramanuj acarya's commentary on the Gita. He takes the concept of visesa, the power by which particulars inhere in an object, from Madhvacarya, in order to explain the non-difference of God from His qualities." Srila Prabhupada Lecture-Seattle, October 18, 1968
Foreword:
One can ask why did Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana consider it necessary to write a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita, when shortly before that his siksa guru; Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, had written an excellent and original commentary perfectly in harmony with Gaudiya philosophy. His personal answer to that question we will never know.
However, by
examining his commentary, Gita Bhusana, the reader will be able to
appreciate that he has indeed made a significant contribution to the
study of the Gita in writing it. Like Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti's, his
explanations are unique and consistent with the whole of the Gita, and
yet his commentary is quite different from Visvanatha's. At the same
time, the explanations are in harmony with the Gaudiya philosophy. Thus,
we have two equally brilliant commentaries on the same text. Both
conclude the supremacy of Krsna and pure bhakti.
Hardback, 621 pages