by Kripamoya Pranada Comtois was kind enough to send me a copy of her book Wise Love: Bhakti and the Search for the Soul of Consciousness. I wanted to do her book justice and set aside some uninterrupted reading time, so while visiting family in Cornwall, south-west England, I read up to chapter 1. I liked the narration of Vyasa in his ashram and was happy to finally put a name to his wife: Vyataki. Let’s hear it for the woman who was the wife of Vyasadeva and the mother of Shuka. Since the author – with the surname of Comtois (probably pronounced com-toys by my American cousins who love hard vowels) no doubt had some French or Belgian … [Read more...]