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Vivekachudamani - The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination: A bilingual edition in Sanskrit and English

Vivekachudamani - The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination: A bilingual edition in Sanskrit and English

Shankara, Adi
Richards, John
Everson, Michael

Paperback

Hinduism

ISBN10: 1782011692
ISBN13: 9781782011699
Publisher: Evertype
Published: Apr 15 2022
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Vivekachudamani (Sanskrit Vivekacūḍāmaṇi) is an introductory treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism, traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara of the eighth century CE. It is in the form of a poem in the Shardula Vikridita metre, and for many centuries has been celebrated as a prakaraṇa grantha ('teaching manual') of Advaita. Vivekachudamani literally means 'the crest-jewel of discrimination'. The text discusses key concepts and the viveka or discrimination or discernment between real (unchanging, eternal) and unreal (changing, temporal), Prakriti and Atman, the oneness of Atman and Brahman, and self-knowledge as the central task of the spiritual life and for Moksha. It expounds the Advaita Vedanta philosophy in the form of a self-teaching manual, with many verses in the form of a dialogue between a student and a spiritual teacher.

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