The Divine Wisdom of the Dravida Saints

This book "The Divine Wisdom of the Dravida Saints", is really a series of discourses on the Highest Mystery, viz., Wisdom matured into Love of God. This, in other words, is no other than the fullest blooming of the lotus-heart of man thirsting for spiritual communion with God. This again, in other words, means the infinite expansion or development of the consciousness of man so as to fully realise what it is for man to infinitely love his God and what it is for God to infinitely love His own creature; or Divine love, Filial and parental. This book treats of both these kinds of love. The present book, may be taken as an interesting Prelude to the Bhagavad-Vishayam, from which in the shape of topics it is drawn and arranged. The plan followed is a division of the book into a number of short topics, each complete and independent in itself and illustrated by conversations and anecdotes, thus for the first time giving to the Western world an idea of this Eastern method of inculcating spiritual instruction. Another novel feature of this book consists in its having copious footnotes, which are mostly correspondence selected from out of a wide range of works of Western Divines so as to show how religious ideas are found to have unity and universality; how it may be seen that one raceless and countryless God indeed rules over all races and all countries, and how the Highest Mystery of religion consists in the fervid over-mastering intensity of rapt love to God–which is the highest wisdom, the highest mysticism and occultism leading to liberation and beatitude or communion with God.