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Title: Upadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings by Shankara, Swami Jagadananda ISBN: 8-1712005-9-1 Publisher: Vedanta Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1987 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Central Book on Advaita Vedanta
Comment: I can't believe this book is out of print, to be perfectly honest. This is Shankaracharya's most readable work, and I would call it a must-read for anyone remotely interested in Advaita Vedanta or, indeed, in Hindu philosophy in general.
The Upadesha Sahasri (or this edition of it, at any rate) is divided into two parts: prose (78 pages, three chapters, consisting of sometimes-lengthy dialogues) and verse (231 pages, 19 chapters, consisting of of shorter, compact teachings). The fact that I have a short attention span means that part two is more dog-eared than part one, and I think most readers will find themselves in a similar condition -- and that's all right, because this book reads very much like an anthology. It doesn't necessarily progress in a linear manner, from postulate one to postulate two to postulate three and so on; it more closely resembles a series of verbal teachings collected over a long period of time.
The English translation remains true to the Sanskrit to the point where it is sometimes very hard to follow (sample passage: "People do not receive Self-knowledge on account of the fear that their duties (according to their castes and orders of life) would be destroyed like Udanka who did not accept genuine nectar which, he thought, was urine."); a shrewd writer really should come along and provide a popular translation or paraphrase of this very important work. Until one does, Swami Jagadananda's rendering is certainly very clear and should meet the needs of most serious readers.
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Title: Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination by Swami Prabhavananda , Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0874810388 Publisher: Vedanta Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Ramana, Shankara and the Forty Verses : The Essential Teachings of Advaita by Ramana Maharshi, Shankara, Alan Jacobs ISBN: 1842930427 Publisher: Watkins/Duncan Baird Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism by Hans Torwesten ISBN: 0802132626 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction by Eliot Deutsch ISBN: 0824802713 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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