Sri Shankaracharya: Life and Related Writings

Inspiring discourses on the life and message of Sri Shankaracharya given in Madras in 1932 by the Abbot of Kanci Kamakoti Pitha.

A critical study attempting an historical reconstruction of Sankara's life and work.

The translator, Swami Tapasyananda, has attempted to preserve the literary beauty and depth of thought in this prose translation of Sri Vidyaranya's life of Shankara.

Contents: Sources of Sankara's Doctrine; The Doctrine of Nescience; Knowledge of the Absolute; The Absolute; The Absolute as Being, Consciousness, and Bliss. NEW EDITION

Contents: The Absolute as Creator and Controller; The World and Its Presiding Deities; The Acosmic View. NEW EDITION

Contents: The Soul and Its Organs and Bodies; The States of the Soul and Their Transcendence. NEW EDITION

Contents: Refutation of Inadequate Brahminical Doctrines; Refutation of Non-Vedic World-Views. NEW EDITION

Contents: Adopting the Path; The Veda and the Teacher. NEW EDITION

Contents: The Indirect Path; the Direct Path; the Enlightened Man. NEW EDITION

A study of the whole of Shankara's work, examining the main concepts in his Advaita interpretation and comparing them with other philosophical traditions.