Sri Garga Samhita Completed in 30 Volumes by His Holiness Danavir Goswami

Personality of Godhead. Even the sun, the moon and other controllers and demigods like Lord Brahma and King Indra are all under His control. Srila Rupa Gosvami in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu includes a brief description of Garga Muni in Chapter 28 entitled "Existential Ecstatic Love" as follows: None of the above symptoms can be manifested without the basis principle of strong attachment for Krsna. In the smoky condition of such ecstatic expressions, the symptoms could otherwise be hidden. This type of symptom was experienced by Priest Garga Muni, who was performing some ritualistic ceremony in the house of Nanda Maharaja. When he heard about Krsna's killing of the Aghasura demon, there were some tears visible in his eyes, his throat was trembling, and perspiration covered his whole body. In this way Priest Garga Muni's beautiful face assumed a nice condition. (Nectar of Devotion) The senior-most member of the six Gosvamis of Vrndanana, Srila Sanatana Gosvami, has included Sri Garga-samhita in his list of the most authorized books on the confidential science of pure devotional service. The confidential science of pure devotional service is taught explicitly only in a few Vedic scriptures little known to the public. Amongst these rare texts are the Gopala-tapani Upanishad, the Narada-pancaratra, the Garga-samhita, the Visnu Purana, the Hari-vamsa Upapurana, the Uttara-khanda of the Padma Purana, and the Bhagavata Maha-purana. -- (Sanatana Gosvami's Dig-darsini commentary or Brhad-bhagavatamrta, 1.1.21-23) Lord Siva and his wife Parvati elaborately glorified the Garga-samhita in a scripture called Sammohana-tantra. This book is considered authorized by leading Vaisnavas such as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's original follower, Srila Raghava Gosvami [Srila Raghava Pandita], who quotes it in his own work, entitled Sri Krsna-bhakti-ratna-prakasa (The Splendor of the Jewel of Krsna-bhakti). Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura also refers by name to the scripture Sri Garga-samhita in his book entitled Navadvipa-dhama-mahatmya by quoting from it more than 20 times. Here is a sample: Mayapura is the Lord's yogamaya potency. It is filled with ever-increasing bliss. In the Garga-samhita it is described as "the destroyer of sins." (Navadvipa-dhama-mahatmya, Chapter3; Text 19 by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura) Notes In addition to the excellent translation work rendered by Sri Kusakratha dasa Prabhu, we consulted four other scholarly translations works on the Garga-samhita: Sanskrit Text, Transliteration, Word-to-word Meaning, English Translation and Purport