Aesthetic Vedanta illuminates the classic Sanskrit poem, rasa-lila--the sacred love affair of the Hindu deities Radha and Krsna. Interspersed with original poetry and renderings of the medieval verse of several Hindu mystics, this book reveals the means to access the spiritual reality of India's erotic mysticism.

Aesthetic Vedanta speaks to us of a tradition that is practical and profoundly beautiful, replete with visualization, ritual, song, and dance, both affirming and spiritualizing the erotic principle that lies within our souls.

In the rasa-lila, Godhead enters humanity to celebrate his sensuality, thus confirming the feeling in all of us that our drive for the erotic is not something to be abolished. It is to be redirected away from the illusory and toward the Absolute appearing in its humanlike expressions of Radha and Krsna. By following this sacred path of passionate love, we will realize the summit of the spiritual in the midst of our everyday lives.

Hardcover, 235 pages