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Since there are as many flavors of bhakti as there are human hearts wherein it abides, this course will focus on one prominent expression of bhakti, the Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) bhakti of the 16th century Vraj (Vrindavan) tradition, as a lens into the larger multi-faceted universe of bhakti. If we analogize the different bhakti traditions as constellations within the same universe, we find distinctive features within each one, but numerous overlapping features as well. Our assumption and method is that an in depth study of one tradition (rather than a superficial mapping of multiple traditions) will best serve as a conduit to a profounder understanding of the larger phenomenon of bhakti in general. This focus can then be applied to other bhakti traditions by adding their appropriate flavorings. Thus the course consists of an analysis of bhakti yoga through the lens of a medieval devotional tradition that was pivotal to what is sometimes called a renaissance of Kṛṣṇa devotion across the North of the Indian subcontinent, centered in the holy town of Vrindavan, sacred to Lord Kṛṣṇa. 

1. Module 1: Bhakti-Yoga 
2. Module 2: Bhakti in the Bhagavad Gītā 
3. Module 3: Different Names for the Divine: Bhagavān, Īśvara and Brahman 
4. Module 4: The Classical Nine Processes of Bhakti 
5. Module 5: Bhakta Yogis – part 1 
6. Module 6: Bhakta Yogis – part 2 
7. Module 7: Central Components of Krishna Bhakti 
8. Module 8: The Diverse Forms of Krishna 
9. Module 9: Bonus Bhakti Module with Edwin Bryant

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Edwin Bryant

Edwin Bryant received his Ph.D. in Indic languages and Cultures from Columbia University. He taught Hinduism at Harvard University for three years and is presently the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University where he teaches courses on Hindu philosophy and religion. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition.

As a personal practitioner of bhakti yoga for over 45 years, a number of them spent in India studying with traditional teachers, where he returns yearly, Edwin strives to combine academic scholarship and rigor with appreciation towards traditional knowledge systems. His teaching method is to allow the ancient texts to speak in their own voice and through their own terms and categories.

Edwin’s most recently published work is Bhakti Yoga: Tales and Teachings from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017). This work seeks to ground the practices of bhakti in the traditional Krishna-centered framework of the Vrindavan devotional traditions.

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