Premika Guru: Publication and Related Teachings
How the NSS catalog describes this work
પ્રેમિકા ગુરુ (Gujurati): About devotion
प्रेमिकगुरु (Marathi): All about Devotion(Bhakti) and it's practices
ப்ரேமிககுரு (Tamil): Premika Guru - A book by Premika Guru Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Dev about different stages of Devotion and way to attain this.
Publications in the NSS Biography
In the prevailing atmosphere of confusion in ideals and spirituality among his countrymen, he first sought to call the attention of the so called educated people for rediscovering the merits of Sanatana Dharma. He wrote five books - Bramhacharya Sadhana, Yogiguru, Jnaniguru, Tantrikguru, and Premikaguru - which are invaluable for any seeker on the path of spirituality. He edited and published a path breaking and reformist periodical ‘Arya Darpana’ in 1908 (one of the earliest periodicals of India). It was widely received as a trend-setting journal on religion and spirituality and acted as the mouthpiece of Sanatana Dharma.
Related spiritual context from the NSS website
The following passages describe Thakura's life and teachings in the NSS Biography and Philosophy. They are not excerpts from this book.
Guidance in Prema/Bhav sadhana
But, Nalinikanta had to be initiated into the mysteries of being in love with ‘God’ (prema/bhav sadhana) by ‘Gauri Ma’, a female sadhu of unique spiritual merits. She taught him how the Supreme Soul is both transcendental and playfully active in the universe. He understood that ‘he’ was to initiate mankind in this ‘mantra’ of ‘devoted love’ for God.
Knowledge and universal love
Srimat Swami Nigamananda Saraswati Dev had espoused the essence of the all-inclusive Sanatan Dharma in his ideological as well as methodological maxim " 'Shankarer Mata' and 'Gouranger Patha' ". It speaks of a harmonious blending of highest enlightenment (Jnana) and universal love (Bhakti).
Attaining Jnana (Atma jnana) through Bhakti (devotion/seva) is the integrated ideal that has been reinforced by Swami Nigamananda Dev for the seeker in this age. 'Jeeva - the individual soul, is Brahma - the Supreme Soul' or "Aham Brahmāsmi" - this Vedantic doctrine of the 8th century spiritual reformist Sri Sri Adi Shankaracharya is what a man on the path of spirituality needs to realize to know himself and to know God. And according to him, the royal road to attaining this ultimate spiritual goal is the path of devotion adopted by Sri Chaitanya Dev, the 16th century avatara of devotion.
Reading the original work
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Sources and attribution
Publication information: NSS publications catalog. Historical and spiritual context: existing NSS Biography and Philosophy; original article authors are not credited in those sources.
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