This is to introduce:
 

VidyaVadhu Jivanam 

 

 'The wife (love) of my life is ... Learning' *



 
 
 
 

 
 
I will be posting translations of books from 16th Century Bhakti literature, in Sanskrit & Bengali, into English

*the Nagual DonJuan Matus referred to this as 'having a romance with knowledge'

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