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Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit)

Adi Shankara

Language:
English
Translation:
J. Taylor
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Condition of the text:
Clean text
Extent:
~42,100 words · 200 passages
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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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