Books
Swami Padmanabha’s books offer a contemplative and heartfelt exploration of spiritual life rooted in devotion, relationship, and personal transformation. From foundational questions about identity in Inherent or Inherited?, to a visionary framework for sacred living in Radical Personalism, each book is an invitation to deepen our inner journey. Upcoming works—Evolution in Divine Love and Irreversible Grace—continue this unfolding path of inquiry and devotion.
Evolution in Divine Love: The Eternal Becoming of God, Soul and Matter
What if love is not just a feeling—but the very force that drives all of existence?
In Evolution in Divine Love, Gaudiya Vaishnava monk and spiritual teacher Swami Padmanabha offers a visionary and poetic exploration of love as the dynamic power at the heart of the Divine, soul, and matter. Drawing from Hindu Devotional Vedanta, psychology, modern science, and mystical insights from multiple traditions, this bold and tender work reimagines the spiritual journey as a process of ever-deepening relationship—with the Divine, with the world, and with our evolving selves.
Far from portraying divinity as distant or static, the book unfolds a sacred vision of Ultimate Reality as both changeless and ever-new, infinite and intimate, perfect and perpetually becoming—animated by the same love that pulses through every corner of creation. Through this lens, readers are invited to view reality not as a closed system, but as a living, breathing process of growth, beauty, and co-creative transformation.
More than a theological treatise, Evolution in Divine Love is a contemplative companion. Each chapter features “Pauses” for reflection and “Key Paradigm Shifts” to help integrate its message into daily life. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, interfaith explorer, psychologist, theologian, or simply someone yearning to live from a deeper source, this book offers a radical invitation: to see the cosmos—and yourself—as an ever-unfolding love story.
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Radical Personalism: Revival Manifesto for Proactive Devotion
Radical Personalism is a bold call to reawaken the centrality of the personal in both our spiritual and relational lives. Drawing from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition while engaging the challenges of modernity, Swami Padmanabha offers a framework that honors relationship as the heart of reality—where personhood is not an obstacle to transcendence, but its very expression. This book confronts the reduction of spirituality to rigid dogma or abstract ideals, and instead invites us into a path marked by presence, intimacy, and transformation.
The third part of the book presents what have come to be known as the Seven Pillars of Radical Personalism: Vulnerability, Individuation, Nondual Thinking, Forever Students, Divine Ignorance, Contemplative Prayer, and the Sacredness of the Material World. Together, these themes offer a living vision for embodied devotion—one that embraces uncertainty, celebrates growth, and affirms the world not as something to escape, but as a sacred arena for divine encounter.
"On the whole, Radical Personalism is a comprehensive examination of how to return Gaudiya spirituality to a lived mystical tradition, as intended by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu."
Pranada Comtois, author of the award-winning Bhakti Trilogy: Wise-Love, Bhakti Shakti, and Prema Kirtan
Inherent or Inherited? Bhakti in the Jiva according to Gaudiya Vedanta
Inherent or Inherited? addresses a vital question in Gaudiya Vaishnava theology: is bhakti intrinsic to the soul, or is it granted through divine grace at a later stage? With intellectual honesty, theological depth, and devotional sensitivity, Swami Padmanabha examines scriptural evidence, historical interpretations, and contemporary implications, guiding the reader through a rich inquiry that is both scholarly and deeply personal.
Far from a dry academic debate, this exploration opens the door to a more relational and dynamic understanding of divine love. Swami invites us to see the soul not as a blank slate waiting to receive identity, but as a sacred spark already bearing the imprint of loving connection. This book is an offering to those who seek not only to understand theology, but to live it more fully.
