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Sankar Jayanarayanan <kartik@Eng.Auburn.EDU> writes:
>As my friend said, even those who are against
>Advaita have to accept that it is a work of genius. Shankara simply puts
Bless this friend !!!
>Also, Shankara makes it clear: only those who are religiously oriented should
>read it; i.e, only someone who is already "on the path". He hasn't given any
Does he say religiously oriented or does he mean one has to be
a mumukshhu ?
>To those who have read the Upadashasahasri: Hi, Advaitin!
Hello :-)
In case you did not know, chapter 8,10,19 are written in
vaMshastha chaNDaH {meter}, while the rest of the text follows the common
meter of anushhTubH. Since you know sanskrit, you may be able to appreciate
the wonderful structure of the text. Even otherwise one can count the
syallables to a quarter. anushhTubH has 8 syllables to a quarter, while
vaMshastha has 12 syllables to a quarter.
In addition to upadesasahari, read raamatiirtha's commentary
on Upad. titled padayojanikaa. I am not sure whether this is available
in the US, though it has been published in India.
I have read the following, and you may find it interesting :
1. Upadesasahasri by the Ramayana Publishing house [which i think is
supported by Kanchi kamakoti Math]. It contains Sanskrit, and commentary
in Tamil. If i remember right, the author is gopalkrishna aiyer.
2. Sankara's upadesasahasri by Sengaku Mayeda. This has the transliteration
of the entire Upad. If someone has access to a scanner, they can scan it and
I will convert it to ITRANS. In that way, we will have it in sanskrit on the
WWW.
3. A thousand teachings : upadesasahasri of Shankara by Mayeda. This book
has an excellent introduction to Advaita philosophy in general. There is
no transliteration or sanskrit, but just simple translation.
4. Upadeshasahasri : a thousand teachings... by Swami Jagadananda. This is
a good book with sanskrit and english translation and is published by the
Ramakrishna Math. It is sometimes noted that Swami Jagadananda, in explaining
the text, was favorable to Ramatirtha's commentary than the actual text.
All the above books are available in US.
Giri
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