Krishnas Inner Circle: The Ashta Chaap Poets (Shyamdas Ballabh Das)

These renowned devotional biographies recount the lives and songs of the Ashta Chaap. For these 16th century poets, Shri Krishna was not an image, but the living Supreme Being. Their poems reveal the intimate divine plays of the Lord as well as the greatness of the Lord, guru, and fellow practitioners. They are like mantras, able to evoke the seed of devotion and yield the divine fruit of bhava realization divine mood. For the exceptional, bhava-inspired soul, Krishna's Divine Plays (Lila) can be experienced anytime and anywhere. For the rest of us, the bhava of accomplished ones like the Ashta Chaap should be relished and emulated.