| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya |
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| Added on 09/ 11/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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Buddha, the Awakened One, who, catching in his clear spirit the glow of that early dawn, sought to reflect it in the hearts of all men, of whatever race, of whatever nation; sought to break down the barriers of caste and priestly privilege; to leave each
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya-First Steps on the Path |
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| Added on 09/ 11/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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I BOW before Govinda, the objectless object of final success in the highest wisdom, who is supreme bliss and the true teacher.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Self, Potencies, Vestures |
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| Added on 09/ 11/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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THE first cause of Freedom is declared to be an utter turning back from lust after unenduring things.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - The Witness |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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BEGINNINGLESS is unwisdom, and all its works are too; but when wisdom is arisen, what belongs to unwisdom, although beginningless...
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Finding the Real Self |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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RECOGNIZING as thine own the hidden Self, the witness of the soul and its activities, perceiving truly "That am I," destroy the thought of Self in all not Self.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - The Power of Mind-Images |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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As long as the Self is in bondage to the false personal self of evil, so long is there not even a possibility of freedom, for these two are contraries.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Free Even in Life |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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CEASING to feed the imagination on things not Self full of darkness, causing sorrow, bend the imagination on the Self, whose form is bliss, the cause of freedom.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - The Three Kinds of Works |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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HE who through wisdom discerns that there is no division between the Eternal and the manifested world, bears the mark of one who is free even in life.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Master and Pupil |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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THAT, whose nature no man can define; where is no pasturage for mind or word; one, verily, without second, is the Eternal; there is no difference at all.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - The Perfect Sage |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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HONOR to that one Being, wherever it is; honor to the Light which shines through the form of all that is; and to thee king of teachers!
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - For Ever Free |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Sankaracharya(Author), Charles Johnston(Translator) |
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BUT the body he has left, like the cast-off slough of a snake, remains there, moved hither and thither by every wind of life.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Heritage of the Brahmans |
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IT is said that long ago, in the childhood of the world, the senses were so fine that we could hear the growing of the grass, the rustling of the opening buds of spring.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Awakening to the Self |
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THE awakening to the Self is recorded for those whose inner darkness has been worn away by strong effort, who has reached restfulness, from whom passion has departed, who seek perfect Freedom.
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| theThe Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Awakening to Reality |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Charles Johnston |
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IN the "Awakening to the Self," and, still more, in the, "Crest Jewel of Wisdom,"Sankara the Teacher uses many words in a clear, precise, and consciously exact sense, which is not always to be gathered from the context of these two works.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - Sankara's Catechism |
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IN THE first part of Sankara's Catechism, previously translated, the most valuable thing is the teaching of the sevenfold man, who is really a modified unity appearing in seven modes.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Essence of the Teaching |
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THE form is seen, the eye is seer; the mind is both seen and seer. The changing moods of mind are seen, but the witnessing Self, the seer, is never seen.
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Teachings of Sankara |
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TRADITION, our best guide in many of the dark problems of India's past, attributes the admirable philosophical work we have just translated to...
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Other Writings - The Song of the Self |
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NOR earth nor water, fire nor liquid air, Nor ether, nor the powers, nor these in one;
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| The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and Other Writings of Sankaracharya - Appendix: A Symposium on the Life of Sankaracharya |
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| Added on 09/ 12/2008 By Charles Johnston |
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I LOVE to think of those great beings, those royal-hearted Ones, who return to earth to shed their divine compassion in order to lift the veil into those inner realms of light for those who are ready to look within.
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