"I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the Lord. They are just like desire trees who can fulfill the desires of everyone, and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls."

Vedic convention dictates that when any object or principle is described, it's done so from the point of view of three truths. They are: sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana, or, how the object or principle is related to the Supreme Absolute Truth - Krishna, the methodology to attain prema - love of Krishna, and the attainment itself, respectively. Bhaktivinode wrote this book, Jaiva-Dharma, from these three starting points. In the very first chapter, Bhaktivinode begins by describing the eternal versus the temporary nature of things and how they relate to Krishna.

The information within this synopsis is taken from two translations of Jaiva-Dharma. One is from a translation by a Prabhupada disciple, Sriman Sarvabhavana dasa Adhikari. The other is by His Holiness Narayana Maharaja. While each translator may have chosen different words here and there, they each retained the essence of Jaiva-Dharma. Lastly, each chapter on the next page is, or will be, linked to its own page.

I hope you benefit from this small effort of devotion. It's not my intent to offend anyone, nor would I assume even for a moment that I can add anything philosophically to His Holiness Bhaktivinode's work. Though I may take liberties in displaying a graphic here and there, it's only my take on things as my mind's eye sees the scenes described within the book. Lastly, how the pages appear depends on the browser you're using. The pages show up best in Internet Explorer (IE), while the spacing may appear a bit off in Firefox and Chrome.