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2018 Spirituality Winner
Book of the Year, Body/Mind/Spirit

We all long for boundless love as we long for home. But how can we find our home – our meaning and purpose – if we don’t know our self? Wise-Love is an exploration of the self, or consciousness, through the eyes of saints, sages, seers, and mystics. As we embark on the journey to the self, we discover that the self’s most charming characteristic – part of its eternal, unchanging nature – is that it is a lover, a lover who can be satisfied only when ordinary love evolves into wise-love.

Pranada Comtois, a devoted pilgrim and spiritual teacher, illuminates bhakti’s wisdom school of heartfulness and shows why mindfulness alone can never satisfy the self. “Joy comes from an awakened heart and expanded consciousness, not from a controlled or stilled mind.”

The first part of Wise-Love explores the nature of self/consciousness and how we interface with the world with the use of our physical body and subtle body (mind, intelligence, and ego). By understanding the distinctions between our real and false selves, we can factually answer the questions Who am I? What is my purpose? and How can I be happy? The second half of the book examines the nature of matter, the world of consciousness, karma, faith, mysticism, the efficacy of sacred sound, the maha-mantra, kirtan, humility, depth compassion, and how to culture wise-love. Each chapter unfolds with an understanding of matter and consciousness to present a key that unlocks our eternal nature so that we can experience the unbounded joy of the self in our daily lives.

When we encounter the self, we’re automatically introduced to our Divine Suitor and our loving relationship with him. Filled with insight and fresh perspectives, Wise-Love offers a map for the journey to our home of eternal affection, where a porch light is always lovingly lit, and a warm embrace from our Divine Other awaits.

Secretly nestled in the Upanishads and extolled in the Bhagavad Gita, bhakti shines as the crown jewel on the head of India’s timeless wisdom about consciousness. Often over-simplified as “devotion,” bhakti is the method of experiencing the self and its Essence/Source. This concise yet comprehensive handbook exploring the meaning of bhakti’s sophisticated philosophy promises to enrich you wherever you are on the spiritual path.

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Praise for Wise-Love

A gateway into the universal heart

Pranada has made a real contribution to anyone who is interested in diving deeper into a Bhakti path—the Way of Love and Devotion—offering us a gateway into the universal heart and the power of love that transforms us all, our very nature, and source of realization.

Shiva Rea
World renowned yoga teacher, wellness lifestyle catalyst of life-transforming yogic workshops, retreats, and trainings. She is often a featured guest in top yoga festivals, contributor/featured author in leading publications including Origin, Mantra, Yoga Journal, Vanity Fair, Self and the LA Times. She is the author of Tending the Heart Fire and founder Global School for Living Yoga and Global Mala Project

A great source for yoga teachers

Pranada Comtois artfully connects transcendental philosophy to practical experience in a down-to-earth voice that’s sure to resonate with modern seekers. A great resource for yoga teachers and a must read for anyone who longs for a deeper understanding of devotional yoga, Wise-Love is a lucid revelation of bhakti-yoga as the science of spiritual emotions.

Hari-kirtana Das
author of In Search of the Highest Truth: Adventures in Yoga Philosophy

A practical guidebook for all sincere seekers

In her groundbreaking work Wise-Love, teacher-practitioner Pranada Comtois offers readers a rare combination of textual exegesis and common sense insights about the journey to self-awareness. In tracking consciousness—the fundamental core self that is both the subject and object of contemplative practice—too often writers gravitate to extremes, favoring either a detached analysis of source texts or an indulgent exposition of personal insights. Readers are consequently presented with bits and pieces of the spiritual journey, but no clear picture of where it leads. We can be grateful that Pranada has taken such care to ground her very readable work in a scholarly yet simple exposition of classical Vedanta. Here at last is a practical guidebook for all sincere seekers, to be savored and celebrated.

Joshua M. Greene
Joshua M. Greene has produced films for PBS and Disney, has served as vice president for New York's largest PR firm, and was appointed director of strategic planning for the United Nations Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. He was also an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University in New York. His previous works include the best-selling Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison; Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor; Witness: Voices from the Holocaust; and Gita Wisdom: An Introduction to India's Essential Yoga Text

Claim the treasure

In Wise-Love, Pranada Comtois shows us that cultivating awakened consciousness and perfect joy is not only possible, but is our birthright. Claim the treasure with which the mystics of all traditions tease us: a transformational encounter between lover and Beloved, in which the individual soul melts into the luminous sea of Love.

Mirabai Starr
Author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation

A light for us who are applying this path of love in our daily lives.

Wise-Love is destined to be a staple in yoga teacher trainings across the world as it gives a straightforward and easy-to-understand approach to bhakti yoga. Such books can only be written by people living it, and Pranada Comtois has been practicing for more than forty years. She sheds a light for us who are trying to practically apply this path of love in our daily lives.

Raghunath (Ray Cappo)
International yoga teacher, educator in yoga philosophy, and ex-singer of SHELTER band

The Bhakti path in a practical way

How refreshing to find a well-written book that presents the Bhakti path in a practical way that anyone can apply in our modern world.

Tosha Silver
Author of Outrageous Openness and Change Me Prayers

Do not underestimate this book

Do not underestimate this book. Wise-Love delivers both wisdom and deep emotion. This is Zen Bhakti Yoga. It is bright, concise and juicy.

Jeffrey Armstrong
Author, Philosopher, Vedic scholar, and Poet

A practical journey into the deepest regions of the heart

Pranada leads her readers on a practical journey into the deepest regions of the heart while engaging both an interreligious and nonsectarian spiritual component. This is not a sentimental book that panders to our common need for affection. In defining our true identity we’re led to discover the highest realms of spiritual love. Using eloquent and yet simple language, Pranada brings us where we need to go: into the sweet center of own being where the most profound love naturally awaits us. Highly recommended for anyone seeking to nurture their soul.

Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa)
Author of 31 books on Vaishnava spirituality, senior editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies

A priceless gift

The imperative need now for us, as a species, is to move from our heads to our hearts, to learn to live differently, to love in a more profound and complete way. This beautiful and transformative book takes us from the concept of love as generally understood to the experience of love as an exalted state of being, a permanent state of ecstatic devotion and union with the Divine. Wise-Love is a priceless gift that can act as a guide in these distressed and distressing times.

Anne Baring
Author of The Dream of the Cosmos, a Quest for the Soul

A much-needed corrective

We have come a long way since the “Hare Krishnas,” as they were known, sang and danced across the Western cultural landscape, drawing ridicule from mainstream culture—and often from the counterculture as well. Five decades ago, few understood that those ecstatic chanters represented a venerable spiritual tradition backed by an esteemed body of sacred literature. Now, thousands attend kirtan festivals and yoga studios host regular kirtan evenings. Still, little is known about the conceptual, philosophical and pragmatic underpinnings of the Bhakti path. Wise-Love is a much-needed corrective. Combining rigorous research and accessible prose, it is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding, ever-deepening transmission of Vedic wisdom to the West.

Philip Goldberg
Author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the West

A colorful cornucopia of heart exercises

In her debut book, Pranada Comtois offers us a colorful cornucopia of heart exercises for the modern mystic. Creatively juxtaposing ancient, Bhakti wisdom from the East, with familiar views of Western thinkers, Pranada weaves together philosophy, psychology and her own personal insights to broaden our definition of love. Wise-Love promises to unveil the nature of awakened consciousness, inspire our spirits and nourish our hearts in the most profound ways.

Catherine Ghosh
Co-author of Yoga in the Gita, teacher at The Secret Yoga Institute

An inspiring addition to any seeker’s spiritual library

Wise-Love unfolds as a sublime threshold into a new order of being—the realm of ananda, or spiritual bliss, in relationship with the Divine. It carries the reader into a most secret and confidential understanding of loving exchange that exists beyond the limited concepts available within our ordinary everyday linear ways of thinking. Practical approaches compliment the beautiful philosophical framework making this an inspiring addition to any seeker’s spiritual library.

Richard Whitehurst
Author of Mahamantra Yoga: Chanting to Anchor the Mind and Access the Divine

The perfect companion

Wise-Love is the perfect companion for someone seeking to understand the true nature of love. Love comes in many shades and degrees. With Wise-Love Pranada Comtois offers an exploration of love as devotion to something that’s beyond us and yet is us. That devotion or bhakti leads us into the eternal, true love that our hearts seek. This book is for those who may feel disillusioned by the more materialistic types of love and yearn to delve into the Divine.

 

Debra Moffitt
Author of Garden of Bliss and Awake in the World

A beautiful journey into the wisdom of the heart

Wise-Love is a beautiful journey into the wisdom of the heart by Pranada! Wise-Love effortlessly invites the reader to the path of love and surrender with supreme insight. . . . This book shall reach the hearts of many and open the hearts of even more. A gripping tale of love and light.

Indu Arora
Author of Mudra-The Sacred Secret and Ayurveda and Yoga Therapist

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