Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- J. Taylor
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~42,100 words · 200 passages
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- APAAdi Shankara. (n.d.). Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit) (J. Taylor, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-shankara/atma-bodha-the-knowledge-of-spirit
- MLAAdi Shankara. Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit). Translated by J. Taylor. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-shankara/atma-bodha-the-knowledge-of-spirit.
- ChicagoAdi Shankara. Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit). Translated by J. Taylor. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/adi-shankara/atma-bodha-the-knowledge-of-spirit.
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What it is about
Atma Bodha, the knowledge of the self.
Context and history
Sixty-eight verses attributed to Shankara (8th c.), the shortest introduction to Advaita Vedanta: the individual soul and Brahman are one, and the difference is ignorance. For Indian thought Shankara is what Aquinas is for scholasticism — the systematiser who fixes the vocabulary of everyone who follows.
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