The Philosophy of Love- Bhakti-Sutras of Devarsi Narada (An Old and Rare Book)

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It was in the year 1916 that I first came across a Bengali edition of the aphorisms of Devarsi Narada. I was then living in seclusion in a distant corner of Bengal, and, through the grace of God, developed some interest in spiritual practices. The aphorisms of the Devarsi proved very helpful to me in those practices. While I was studying these aphorisms, I felt an inclination to write out a running commentary on In them. due course a commentary was actually written; but there was then neither the urge nor the facility to bring it out in a bookform. About the year 1920, when I was in Bombay, I casually mentioned to late Seth Khemrajji, the proprietor of Sri Venkateswara Press, about this commentary, and he very eagerly took the manuscript from me and gave it for publication to the Press; but there, owing to inadvertence, it remained buried for years under other manuscripts. As I had no particular urge in the matter, I gave him no reminder. Khemrajji passed away. And several years after his death I got the manuscript back from Bombay. I had no mind to get it printed. For I felt it was an act of supererogation on my part to write a commentary on a treatise on Bhakti, But this Sattvic feeling of diffidence and hesitation gradually wore off as I came into some prominence and the publication of the book was eventually decided upon.