Saundaryalahari by Sri Sankara Bhagavatpadacarya

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Here we have a meeting of two great minds a meeting of two great spirits.  Saundaryalahari is by Sri Sankara Bhagavatpada,  Adi Sankara and its exposition is by Pujyasri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvati Swami The Sage of Kanchi widely known as the Mahaswami .

Adi Sankara is celebrated all over the world as a great bhasyakara as a commentator of the Upanisads the Brahmasutra the Bhagavadgita and other texts Here we have a bhasya of a great hymn composed by the bhasyakara and what we call an exposition of the Saundaryalahari is indeed an inspired and inspiring work a classic.

The Mahaswami speaks with the heart of a poet with the penetrating insight of a philosopher and metaphysician and with the vision of a mystic. There are passages that move you with their unobtrusive eloquence passages in which abstruse ideas are explained in a masterly fashion There is poetry in this exposition, there is the fervour of devotion as well as profundity of thought that is oceanic in its vastness and depth. Here we have a synthesis of Bhakti and Jnana of Advaita and the Sakta doctrine. When the Sage of Kanchi speaks of beauty he takes you to the sublime realm of aesthetic delight. How loft must be his mystic vision as revealed in his identification of beauty with love and compassion. He speaks of many laharis many waves and his own bhasya of the Sandaryalahari is a flood of beauty that traverses various systems of thought he harmonizes them as only he can proving again that he is an Acharya with rate insights and with an original and creative mind.

Publisher : Bharatiya  Vidya Bhavan ; HardBack ;  Pages : 606 ; Exposition by Pujyasri Candrasekharananda Sarasvati