Studies in Vaisnavism and Tantricism

The present book is dwelling with Vaisnavism and Tantricism. It consists of Eighteen Lectures on Vaisnavism and the ninteenth chapter is one Tantricism by Dr. M.N. Sircar, a scholar of international reputation, many of whose monumental works on Philosophy and Religion are already in the field. These are delivered as “Sri Krsna” Extension Lectures on “Aryan Dharma” The author himself, a mystic, is fit to deal with the theme and he has done thorough justice to it by his masterly and exhaustive treatment in a lucid style, so that the subject though abstruse, has been made interesting and intelligible. Such publications of our Religion may be compared both in its aim and spirit to similar publications of lectures on Comparative Religion delivered under different Trusts in the West as well as in the East; and we venture to believe that this book will be a distinct contribution to World Thought and Culture for a proper understanding of the grandeur, depth and dignity of Hindu Mysticism, or properly speaking Aryan Mysticism, as embodied in the Sacred Literature of the Aryans.