The Nectar of Self-Awareness

<p><em>The Nectar of Self-Awareness (Amritanubhav)</em> is an original work describing in part the spiritual experiences and state of enlightenment of its author Jnaneshwar the great thirteenth-century Indian poet-saint. Written originally in Marathi it has few English translations. This poetic rendering by the poet George Franklin captures its gloriously extravagantly figurative language as George describes it. George goes on to say It is preeminently a poem and manages to have all the attributes of a poem while expounding philosophical ideas with extraordinary subtlety. As such it has a rich use of metaphors similes and analogies... At the same time and equally it is a cogent philosophical critique. The verses though carefully reasoned and ordered feel as a result of their dazzling wit almost casual offhand. Yet there is something magisterial even supremely self-confidently aristocratic in their tone. This volume also contains an essay George wrote describing how he came to create the manuscript which was initially lost and is now being published posthumously.</p>