The Quintessence of Vedanta of Sri Sankaracharya (Shankaracharya): A Translation of The Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha of Acharya Sankara
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PublisherSri Ramakrishna Advaita Ashrama
ISBN / ASINB00IJB6HTU
ISBN-13978B00IJB6HT4
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Language: (Sanskrit Text with English Translation)
Pages: 382
From the JacketThe Shankaracharya arose and once more revived the Vedanta philosophy. He mad e it a rationalistic philosophy. In the Upanisads the arguments are often very obscure. By Buddha the moral side of the philosophy was laid stress upon, and by Shankaracharya, the intellectual side. He worked out, rationalized, and placed before men and wonderful coherent system of Advaita.In Buddha we had the great universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want today the bright sun of intellectuality, joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the higher philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy will become friends. This will be the religion of the future, and if we can work it out, we may be sure that it will be or all times and peoples.
PrefaceWe have great pleasure in offering to the English knowing public one more work by the great Acharya who needs no introduction to the student of Indian Philosophy. The Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha by Acharya Shankara, as its name implies, is a compendium and a precise re-statement of all that has been thought of and set down about the Self from a purely philosophical viewpoint. A translation of this work originally planned and undertaken by Swami Tattwananda has since been revised by swami Jagadananda of the Ramakrishna Mission with a View to make it simpler and easy of understand by the general public. the publishers do not , however, claim that this rendering into English is literal or precise. Notwithstanding the limitation of English language as a vehicle of expression of Indian philosophic thought, the author has endeavoured to maintain the spiri
Pages: 382
From the JacketThe Shankaracharya arose and once more revived the Vedanta philosophy. He mad e it a rationalistic philosophy. In the Upanisads the arguments are often very obscure. By Buddha the moral side of the philosophy was laid stress upon, and by Shankaracharya, the intellectual side. He worked out, rationalized, and placed before men and wonderful coherent system of Advaita.In Buddha we had the great universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want today the bright sun of intellectuality, joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the higher philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy will become friends. This will be the religion of the future, and if we can work it out, we may be sure that it will be or all times and peoples.
PrefaceWe have great pleasure in offering to the English knowing public one more work by the great Acharya who needs no introduction to the student of Indian Philosophy. The Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha by Acharya Shankara, as its name implies, is a compendium and a precise re-statement of all that has been thought of and set down about the Self from a purely philosophical viewpoint. A translation of this work originally planned and undertaken by Swami Tattwananda has since been revised by swami Jagadananda of the Ramakrishna Mission with a View to make it simpler and easy of understand by the general public. the publishers do not , however, claim that this rendering into English is literal or precise. Notwithstanding the limitation of English language as a vehicle of expression of Indian philosophic thought, the author has endeavoured to maintain the spiri
