interest survey for book purchase

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I talked recently to SMS chari. He told me that the publisher Motilal

banarsidas was not re-printing his two books:

 

Advaita and visistadvaita - based on satadushani of vedanta desika

fundamentals of visistadvaita - based on tattva mukta kalapa of vedanta desika

 

since, there was no gaurantee that atleast 100 copies of these books could be

sold. Motilal banarsidas is basically saying if any organization is willing to

give a letter of agreement that, it could buy 100 copies of these books then

the books will be re-printed. these books are currently out of print.

 

to put it briefly, both these books are master pieces of vedanta desika,

hitherto not available in english. as far as I know there are no other

books in english which go into the depth at which SMS chari deals with, in

these books.

 

as most of you know, satadushani, is almost the most complete list of

arguments against advaita from visistadvaita point of view. but for

SMS chari's books I could not have studied this text in sanskrit since the

arguments are too terse to be picked up from sanskrit books.

 

the tattva mukta kalapa is the most erudite presentation of visitadvaita

in a systematic manner. there are no other english books which deals with

this at present.

 

I would like to know who will be interested to buy this book - I am requesting

Sri Ranganatha seva samithi to give the letter of intent to motilal banarsidas.

 

I would like to present the interest level also by taking a survey vote from

this group. I may cross post this on other vaishnava groups.

the cost of the books will be roughly :

 

advaita and visistadvaita : 7$

fundamentals of visistadvaita: 11$

POSTAGE : 6$ WITHIN US

 

total : roughly $24

 

 

PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO MY ACCOUNT OR REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IF YOU ARE INTERESTED

TO BUY THESE BOOKS. DONT POST TO PRAPATTI OR BHAKTI. I WILL COLLECT THE

MONEY AND MAIL YOU THOSE BOOKS AFTER THEY ARRIVE ie. after about 3-4 months