राम

शास्त्र

Sacred Texts

The scriptures the channel reads, slowly, over many years

These are the books that have walked with the channel. Some came in childhood, some arrived later. They live on different shelves: the Mānasa beside the bed, the Bhāgavata for the slow afternoons, the Tukārām Gāthā for the morning, the Bhaktamāl for the lives of those who went before. The Interior Castle of Teresa, in a different language and the same heart.

No book here asks for mastery. They ask to be picked up, read for a few minutes, set down. The work is in the picking up again, season after season, year after year. The Lord, who is patient, will be there.

Library

The Vraja Library

The texts of Krishna-bhakti, from the Bhāgavata's tenth canto to the Brajbhāṣā saints to Bhaiji. The forest in many forms.

More books are coming, slowly. The Aṣṭāvakra Gītā, the Gīta Govinda, the Brahma Saṃhitā, others. The library is built one volume at a time, the way it was always built.