Samputa means ‘that place where precious jewels and other valuable stones are carefully hidden from the vision of people’. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has reealed the unnata-Ujjvala prema in Sri Radha’s heart, which is likened to a treasure chest, and protected it in a box in the form of this book.
 
Therefore, the name of this book is Sri Prema-samputa.” (Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami maharaj) Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana gosvami Maharaja appeared 1921in a devot Vaisanava family in Tivaripura, a village near the river Ganga, in Bihar, India. In 1946, he received initiation from his gurudeva, Sri srimad Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja and his life of complete and exemplary dedication to Gaudiya Vaisnavavism or the path of krsna bhakti in the line of Sri caitanya Mahaprabhu, began. Five years later, he was awarded the renounced order of life.
 
Srila Narayana Gosvami Maharaja circled the globe more than thirty times, expounding Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s message of pure, transcendental love. Simultaneously, he published books on the science of bhakti Hindi, English and other languages. On 29 December 2010 in Sri Puri-dhama he concluded his pastimes in this world.
This Sri Prema-samputa is a translation of his Hindi edition, which is a bhavanuvada, a translation incorporating the inner transcendental sentiments expressed in the Sanskrit verses.