In 1740, Benjamin Franklin published the first American edition of Gospel Sonnets, by the eminent Scottish Presbyterian minister Ralph Erskine. The work, already in its fifth British edition, quickly became an American bestseller and remained so throughout the eighteenth century. Franklin was aware of what most scholars of American religion and literature have forgotten -that poetry played a central role in the "surprising works of God" that birthed evangelicalism. The far-reaching social transformations precipitated by the transatlantic evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century depended upon the development of a major literary form, that of revival poetry. Literary scholars and historians of religion have prioritized sermons, conversion narratives, periodicals, and hymnody. Wendy Roberts here argues that poetry offered a unique capacity to "diffuse celestial Fervor through the World," in the words of the cleric Samuel Davies. Awakening Verse is the first monograph to address this large corpus of evangelical poetry in the American colonies, shedding light on important dimensions of eighteenth-century religious and literary culture. Roberts deftly assembles a large, previously unknown archive of immensely popular poems, examines how literary history has rendered this poetic tradition invisible, and demonstrates how a vibrant popular poetics exercised a substantial effect on the landscape of early American religion, literature, and culture.

Introduction: Revival Poetry -- Chapter One: "The Sound in Faith": The Calvinist Couplet and the Poetics of Espousal -- Chapter Two: "A Lady in New England": Forms of the Poet-Minister -- Chapter Three: Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste -- Chapter Four: The Ethiop's Verse: The Limits of Poetic Capacity and Espousal Piety -- Chapter Five: A Revivalist Ars Poetica for an Itinerant Coterie: Evangelical Wit, Punctiliar Revision, and Poetic AddressConclusion: Conversions of Poetic History -- Appendix A: Revival Poets and Poetry -- Appendix B: Selected Verse

Who am I? Am I a human trying to know the Truth, or am I the Truth experiencing a human order? Am I a definition trying to know what lies in the ocean of That which is undefined, or am I That Undefined perceiving a body of definition? Am I limited and trying to fathom the seemingly limitless existence, or am I the Unlimited observing limitedness by the very act of observation? What was before me? What will be after me? What are my first memories? How far can I remember? Can I recall the moment when I was born? Did all this which I call ‘life’ really unfold exactly like how I imagined during childhood, youth, middle-age or old age? Will I be able to observe the perishing of this body? Will the observation that ‘I’ carry also cease? Is there a true path to liberation? What is liberation? The Awakening of Vishnu explores eternal concepts of Aryavart such as: • Absolute and relative bliss • The observer and the field of observation • Atma as Jeev-atma and Param-atma • Shakti as Maya • The paradox of reality • The grand paradox of liberation It brings forth the complete translations of Adhyatm Upanishad and Akulveer Tantra.

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A new translation of the primary Indian Buddhist text on buddha nature, with Tibetan commentaries explaining how this text can be used to contemplate and realize one's own buddha nature. "Buddha nature" (tathāgatagarbha) is the innate potential in all living beings to become a fully awakened buddha. This book discusses a wide range of topics connected with the notion of buddha nature as presented in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and includes an overview of the sūtra sources of the tathāgatagarbha teachings and the different ways of explaining the meaning of this term. It includes new translations of the Maitreya treatise Mahāyānottaratantra (Ratnagotravibhāga), the primary Indian text on the subject, its Indian commentaries, and two (hitherto untranslated) commentaries from the Tibetan Kagyü tradition. Most important, the translator’s introduction investigates in detail the meditative tradition of using the Mahāyānottaratantra as a basis for Mahāmudrā instructions and the Shentong approach. This is supplemented by translations of a number of short Tibetan meditation manuals from the Kadampa, Kagyü, and Jonang schools that use the Mahāyānottaratantra as a work to contemplate and realize one’s own buddha nature.

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