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VIYEKAGHUDAMANI
OF
SRI SANKARACHARYA
Text with English Translation, Notes and an Index,
BY
SWAMI MADHAVANANDA.
THE ADVAITA A5HRAMA, MAYAVATI,
Dt. Almora, Himalayas.
All righlb received, j [ i'lice Rs. T>vo,
Published by Swaml Madhavaoaada, Presldeatf
Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati.
Printed by Mohan Lai Sah Chowdhary
at the Prabuddha Bharata Press, Mayavati,
Dt. Almora.
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FOREWORD
Scarcely any introductiou is needed for a book that professes to be, as its title-7~
'Crest-jewel of Discrimination ' — shows, a masterpiece on Advaita V^edanta, the cardinal tenet of which is: Wp ^ "if^^fi^^^JT
Sftfr arIr^ ^TTT^:— 'Brahman alone is real, tlie universe is unreal and the individual soul is no other than the Universal Soul.'
Being an original production of Sankara's genius, the book combines with a searching analysis of our experience an authoritativencss and a depth of sincerity that at once carry conviction into the heart of its readers. The whole book is instinct with the prophetic vision of a Seer, a man of Realisation, and the expression, too, is so lucid and poetical that quite a new life has been breathed into the dry bones of philosophical discussion, and that, too, on the most abstruse subject ever known.
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