Author : Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati
Publisher : Srikanth s
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release :
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
The third in the series - The True Advaita Shankara dealing with the Basic Tenets of Advaita Vedanta.
Author : Natalia Isayeva
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438407629
According to Advaita-Vedanta, God or Brahman is identical with the inner self (the Atman) of each person, while the rest of the world is nothing but objective illusion (maya). Shankara maintains that there are two primary levels of existence and knowledge: the higher knowledge that is Brahman itself, and the relative, limited knowledge, regarded as the very texture of the universe. Consequently, the task of a human being is to reach the absolute unity and the reality of Brahman—in other words, to reach the innermost self within his or her own being, discarding on the way all temporary characteristics and attributes.
Author : Swami Vivekananda
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Vedanta
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Bhagavadgītā
ISBN :
Author : Eliot Deutsch
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824802714
Advaita Vedānta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philosophy, and since the time of Samkara in the ninth century some of the greatest intellects in India have contributed to its development. In his reconstruction of Advaita Vedānta, Eliot Deutsch has lifted the system out of its historical/cultural context and has concentrated attention on those ideas which have enduring philosophical value. He has sought to formulate systematically one's understanding of what is of universal philosophical interest in Vedantic thought. Professor Deutsch's work covers the basic metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideas of Vedānta. Students and scholars of Western as well as of Indian philosophy will be interested in the lucid, organized manner in which the material is presented and in the fresh interpretations given. The book is written in a critical rather than simply "pious" spirit and should thus also be of interest to anyone interested in deepening his or her appreciation and understanding of the richness of Indian thought.
Author : Berthold Madhukar Thompson
Publisher : XinXii
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 3959267533
n 1991, Berthold Madhukar Thompson was declared enlightened by a renowned Indian teacher. Yet Madhukar's search for truth was not over; he himself was not convinced that he had achieved the summit of enlightenment. The Odyssey of Enlightenment chronicles the burning quest of a man already acknowledged to be enlightened, as he searches for--and ruthlessly questions--a total of 12 other teachers others who are widely recognized as enlightened. Spurred on by an unquenchable yearning for truth, Thompson's odyssey takes him to remote parts of India where he engages in dialogues of a quality and depth rarely found in the annals of religion. A chronicle of the author’s burning quest for truth, as he tirelessly questions a total of 12 spiritual teachers, including Osho, U.G. Krishnamurthi, Ramesh S. Balsekar, Papaji, Gangolli, Kiran and Andrew Cohen, amongst others. Contemplative dialogue of an unparalleled quality and depth.
Author : Pavan K. Varma
Publisher : Westland
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9395073764
About the Book A COMPREHENSIVELY RESEARCHED BOOK ON THE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF ADI SHANKARACHARYA What is Brahman? What is its relationship to Atman? What is an individual’s place in the cosmos? Is a personalised god and ritualistic worship the only path to attain moksha? Does caste matter when a human is engaging with the metaphysical world? The answers to these perennial questions sparkle with clarity in this seminal account of a man and a saint, who revived Hinduism and gave to Upanishadic insights a rigorously structured and sublimely appealing philosophy. Jagad Guru Adi Shankaracharya (788–820 CE) was born in Kerala and died in Kedarnath, traversing the length of India in his search for the ultimate truth. In a short life of thirty-two years, Shankaracharya not only revived Hinduism, but also created the organisational structure for its perpetuation through the mathas he established in Sringeri, Dwaraka, Puri and Joshimatha. Adi Shankaracharaya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker is a meticulously researched and comprehensive account of his life and philosophy. Highly readable, and including a select anthology of Shankaracharya’s seminal writing, the book also examines the startling endorsement that contemporary science is giving to his ideas today. A must-read for people across the ideological spectrum, this book reminds readers about the remarkable philosophical underpinning of Hinduism, making it one of the most vibrant religions in the world.
Author : Swami Shankara
Publisher : The Teitan Press, Inc.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780874810387
A classic text on the path to God through knowledge. The basic teaching is that God alone is the all-pervading reality; the individual soul is none other than the universal soul. Shankara was under no illusions about this world. For this reason, he is able to describe so powerfully the complete transformation of the universe that takes place before the eyes of the illumined seer, when the world indeed becomes a paradise.
Author : Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Vedanta
ISBN :
Author : Alberto Martin Garcia
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1398486507
Alberto Martín has spent many years studying and practicing Christianity, Sufism, Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta (in that sequence) plus, at one time, the religion of the Crows (a native tribe of N. America). “For me, it has been universalism all along ever since I read Plato when I was 15 years old. Lately my attention has been focused on Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta and non-duality.” For this author, Plato and Shankara say practically all that can be said about reality and the way towards its assimilation and exemplification. In this work Martín answers many of the probing questions anyone of us is led to ask along our lives.
