SRI MADHUSUDANA SARASVATI - No Ordinary Poet!!!

MADHUSUDANA SARASVATI's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita set forth a philosophy of life which also recognized other ways of spiritual development - Yoga, devotion to God and the analytical penetration of Samkhya. Here Madhusudana gave the highest place to the cultivation of devotion. According to him, devotion is the most effective means of God realization and Sri krishna is the highest manifestation of the divine. Krishna is the source of all blessedness, his heart's sole resting place and his life's joy. Once Madhusudana wrote that those who can worship the inscrutable unmanifested may well do so, but for him there is nothing greater than the thought of surrender to Sri Krishna and nothing sweeter than the love of Sri Krishna. The work of Madhusudana, the Gudhartha Dipika (an Annotation revealing the true import of the Gita) is probably the greatest of his many literary works. Though there are many classical commentaries on the Gita, this work stands next only to Sri Sankaracharya's commentary as regards depth, clarity and originality.