Lives of Vaishnava Saints

WHO IS JAYANANDA? Why is he regarded by so many as a saint? This is a book about love, friendship, religion, and hope. In 1974, Vishoka was a young man looking for his place in life when he met Jayananda (Jil Kohr), a regular American guy who was becoming a living saint in a ancient faith tradition. The gentle friendship of this humble man transformed Vishoka's life, and has transformed countless others in the years since Jayananda's seemingly tragic death from leukemia in 1977. Vishoka's tribute to Jayananda, in the form of these touching and something folksy remembrances of his own, plus others received through e-mails, portrays the beauty of something rarely seen-a genuinely happy man, experiencing a perfect life the death. No matter what our faith, we are inspired anew as Vishoka's story unfolds about learning to love life as Jayananda did, by loving God with all our heart, and all our souls, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. Pages 162

Five hundred years ago, as the Renaissance flourished in Europe, the revolutionary spiritual movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was challenging the assumptions of materialistic society in India. As both a recluse and frontline preacher of that sacred mission, Srila Haridasa Thakura (a Muslim by birth) was one of the first Vaisnavas to bear the brunt of the sometimes violent reaction of an entrenched Hindu and Muslim society. This book offers an insight into the exceptional life, divine qualities, spiritual ecstasies and secret identity of Srila Haridasa Thakura - the saint whom Lord Caitanya Himself awarded the title of Namacarya: one who perfectly teaches, by example, the chanting of the holy names of God.

Prema Vilasa, is one of the several histories that were written by Gaudiya Vaisnavas just after Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Compiled By Purnaprajna Das,Pages 146, Hardbound

Compiled By Naimisaranya Das, With Illustration By Ananta Sakti Das,

Shrinivas Acharya, Narottam Das Thakur, Shyamananda Pandit By Steven Rosen, Pages 204, Hardbound

By Sitala Dasi, Pages 277, Hradbound

Compiled by Sri Nabha Gosvami with commentary by Sri Priyadasa, Translated by Bhumipati Dasa, Edited by Purnaprajna Dasa, Pages 444, Hardbound

By Steven Rosen, Foreword by Noroin J. Hein, Pages 224