About Exquisite Love

The Nārada Bhakti Sūtra, dating from 10th-11th centuries in India, is a collection of 84 aphorisms in Sanskrit on the nature of love for Divinity - the highest, most exquisite form of love. Translating, explaining and interpreting twenty of those short phrases, William K. Mahony brings these teachings into our contemporary world through his extended reflections on the qualities of love, and on the contours of a life oriented toward strengthening, refining and elevating it.

Basing his reflections on the understanding that God is of the nature of absolute Love, Mahony speaks of the divine Heart that is expressed in our own human sentiments of love. He offers readers guidance into ways a Heart-centered life can open them evermore fully to the reality of Love itself.

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William K. Mahony, PhD, is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Davidson College. Holding academic degrees from Williams College, Yale University and the University of Chicago, he served as one of the editors of the first edition of the 16-volume Encyclopedia of Religion and as President of the Muktabodha Indological Research Institute. The recipient of several teaching awards and of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, his research and teaching center on the contemplative and devotional dimensions of religions arising in India. His publications include The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination. Readers of Exquisite Love will see that he integrates his scholarship with sensibilities and perspectives informed by his own spiritual practice. In addition to his academic work, he leads workshops and retreats on the philosophy of yoga as presented in texts from India and on the cultivation and refinement of the yogic life. More information may be found at his website, www.wkmahony.com.