Krishnabookspov
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Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī’s shortest and simplest work, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-līlā-stava is an ecstatic offering of praise in 432 verses punctuated by 108 obeisances. This is the author's personal meditation on Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Vṛndāvana and Mathurā pastimes as he summarizes them from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto 10, chapters 1-45.
In the last section of the text Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī includes prayers to Śrī Jagannātha-deva, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, “the Lord in five features,” the Deity incarnation, and to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam itself. He ends with Dainyārti-vijñāpanam, a “Confession of the Pain of Helplessness,” describing in great humility his own deliverance by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Gopīparāṇadhana Dāsa (1950-2011) was both a scholar of Sanskrit and a practitioner of devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa. Under the guidance of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, he developed an expertise in Sanskrit and served for many years as an editor for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. When Śrīla Prabhupāda passed away, Gopīparāṇadhana served on the three-man team that completed Śrīla Prabhupāda's edition of /"Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam"/. In 1998 he and his family moved to Govardhana, the place of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's pastimes located in northern India, and an important place of pilgrimage for the followers of the Vaiṣṇava tradition. There he spent the last twelve years of his life, translating and training a new generation of devotional scholars at the Śrīmad-bhāgavata Vidyāpiṭham, a school he established for this purpose. Among his most significant literary contributions are the translations of the /"Tattva-sandabha"/, /"Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta"/, and /"Kṛṣṇa Līlā Stava"/.