Vivekacudamani of Sri Sankaracarya

by Svami Turiyananda (Tr.)

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Table of Contents:

• Publisher's Note
• Editor's Preface
• Key to Transliteration
• Publisher's Note
• Vivekacudamani
• Invocation
• Greatness of Abiding in Brahman
• Mean of Knowledge
• Who is competent?
• The Four-fold Sadhana
• Hallmarks of the Guru
• Method of Instruction
• Disciple's Question
• Congratulating the Disciple
• Importance of Self-effort
• Greatness of Self-knowledge
• Need for Self-experience
• Attachment to Body denounced
• Gross Body
• The Ten Indriyas
• The Five Pranas
• Subtle Body
• The Ego
• Nature of Love
• Maya
• Rajo Guna
• Tamo Guna
• Sattva Guna
• Causal Body
• The Non-Self
• The Self
• Super-imposition
• The Tree of Samsara
• Nature of Bondage
• Discrimination between Self and non-self
• The Material Sheath
• The Vital Sheath
• The Mental Sheath
• The Knowledge Sheath
• The Non-attachment of the self
• The Path to Liberation
• The Blissful Sheath
• Nature of the Self
• Everything is Brahman
• Nature of Brahman
• The Mahavakya
• Meditation on Brahman
• Removal of Impressions
• Removal of Super-imposition
• Meaning of "I"
• Denunciation of Egoism
• Denunciation of Inadvertence
• Removal of Reflection
• Method of Abiding in Brahman
• Nature of Substratum
• Samadhi
• Dispassion
• Method of Meditation
• Perceiving
• No Diversity
• Mode of Contemplating the Self
• Ignoring the seen
• Fruit of Self-knowledge
• Hallmark of Jivan-mukta
• Nature of Prarabdha
• Denial of Multiplicity
• Experience of the Self
• Attaining Self-awakening
• Benediction
• The Four-fold Criteria
• In Praise of the Text
• Index.