Author: Sri Sankaracharya
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Samvid
Publisher: Samata Books/Advaita
Year: 2002
Language: Bi-Lingual
Pages: 94
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185208506
Description
This book is translated for the first time into English by Samvid and it is published on the birthday of Sri Sankaracarya. The Acharya's commentaries are better known than his original writings and this title is one of the lesser known works.
Prabodhasudhakara, like other works of Sri Sankaracharya, is complete in itself. It is a poem in nineteen sections consisting of two hundred and fifty-seven verses, taking the human being as he is through a spiral of eighteen steps, to the doors of the Divine Grace.
Apart from the literary grace which marks all the works of the Acharya, Prabodhasudhakara is a compendium of Sadhana synthesizing Jnana, Yoga and Bhakti in its sweep.
Contents
1. THE BODY
2. THE OBJECTS OF THE SENSES
3. THE MIND
4. THE RESTRAINT OF THE SENSES
5: THE RESTRAINT OF THE MIND
6: DISPASSIONATENESS
7: THE SELF
8: MAYA
9: THE SUBTLE AND CAUSAL BODIES
10: NON-DUALITY
11: DOERSHIP AND ENJOYERSHIP
12: SELF-LUMINOSITY
13: CONTEMPLATION ON THE SUBTLE SOUND
14: ABSORPTION OF THE MIND
15: ENLIGHTENMENT
16: DEVOTION IN TWO WAYS
17: THE MANNER OF MEDITATION
18: THE ONENESS OF GOD WITH
AND WITHOUT ATTRIBUTES
19: DIVINE GRACE