Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s1.9
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s1.9
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c10.s1.9
The subjects dealt with in the first Vilāsa are: the necessity of a Guru or Preceptor; the qualifications respectively of the Guru and the Śiṣya or Disciple; greatness of the Bhagavat who is the supreme object of worship; efficacy of the Mantra or mystic formula which has the Bhagavat for its object; persons qualified to receive the Mantra; the method of finding out the nature of the particular Mantra, to be imparted by the Guru to the Śiṣya, and the purification of particular Mantras.