Sri Sankara’s VIVEKACUDAMANI

Description

Sri Samkara ( Sri Shankara ), reverentially adored as Sri Bhagavatpada, wrote illuminating Commentaries on the triple classics of Vedanta Philosophy, the Upanisads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras to provide knowledge of the scriptural texts, reinforcing them by accordant reasoning and verifying them by personal experience. Out of compassion for those who are incapable of mastering these commentaries and to instruct them in the verities of Vedanta, he wrote a number of minor works known as Prákarapa Granthas. Of these, the Vivekacadamani is the best known.

It gives the quintessence of spiritual knowledge. Significantly called ‘the Crest Jewel of Discrimination, it shows that the ills of life are to be traced to one’s inability to discriminate between the eternal and the ephemeral.

Publisher : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan  ; Pages :503;   HardBack

Translator : Sri Candrasekhara Bharati of Sringeri;