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Foreword

(Dr. Demian Martins) for dedicating his life to one major
area of research—the legacy of Gauḍīya Vedāntācārya
Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa—which he is conducting in
the straightforward traditional manner of a committed
devotee, shunning the pretensions and prejudices of
secular academia.

From my own dabblings in scholarly research, I came
to learn what probably all serious researchers have
experienced: sometimes while exploring in one area, one
stumbles across another huge field of investigation in
related or sometimes even distant topics. Thus it is that
Bhakta Demian has taken an aside from his life’s focus on
Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa to publish this important
book, which brings to light some largely unknown
writings of Śrīla Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī.

Particularly valuable herein is Bhakta Demian’s
research and analysis concerning the identity of Śrīla
Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, which sheds new light on a long-
standing controversy by making clear that the contention
of certain polemicists has very little credibility. Followers
of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura glorify him
as rūpānuga-viruddhāpasiddhānta-dhvānta-hārī, “the
remover of the darkness of faulty conclusions that
oppose those of the followers of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī” –
which he did by establishing sat-siddhānta (proper
philosophical conclusions), down to the minutest detail.
It is in this tradition that Bhakta Demian has compiled
this book, and naturally in doing so he also glorifies Śrīla