Author: Swami Sri Ramanananda Saraswathi
Translator(s)/ Edito: Swami Sri Ramanananda Saraswathi
Publisher: Sri Ramanasramam
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 306
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788188018295
Description
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi often quoted from the Tripura Rahasya and considered it to be one of the greatest works expounding the traditional teachings of Advaita.
This book is not to be picked up, read through and put away. The verses are full of divine nectar, which will quench the thirst of any earnest seeker who repeatedly reflects on their meaning and in right earnest, attempts to implement the teaching.
In this fascinating scripture, through stories and analogies, the entire spectrum of spiritual pursuit and attainment is laid out in clear terms. Every sadhaka, serious about attaining the supreme goal of life, should apply him or herself to the teachings of the Tripura Rahasya.
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Foreword
Introduction
Invocation
Introductory Note
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
Obligatory Sense Towards Action condemned
And Investigation Recommended
Chapter 3:
The antecedent cause for Learning the gospel:
Association with the Wise Must Precede “Vichara”
Chapter 4:
Disgust for Worldly Enjoyments is Inculcated
So that Dispassion might be Developed
Chapter 5:
On Bondage and Release
Chapter 6:
On the Merits of faith for gaining the goal
And on the Harmfulness of dry Polemics
Chapter 7:
That the Goal is Gained only After Ascertaining god by
Faith, Effort, Approved Logic and Devotion to Him
Chapter 8:
Key to the Parable of Chapter V
Chapter 9:
How Hemachuda Realised the Self after Analysing His Own
Mind and Plunging within
Chapter 10:
On further Instructions by His Beloved, He got Samadhi
In spite of His External Activities ad Remained in the
State of Emancipation even While Alive
Chapter 11:
That the Cosmos is Not Other than Intelligence
Chapter 12:
The appearance of the Reality of the Universe
Depends on the Strength of Will of Creation
Chapter 13:
How Wakefulness and Dream are Similar in
Nature and Objects are Only Mental Images
Chapter 14:
How the Universe is Mere Imagination; How to Gain
That Strong wills which Can create It; and the Highest Truth
Chapter 15:
On What Need Be Known and Need Not
Be Known and on the Nature of the Self
Chapter 16:
On consciousness, control of Mind, and Sleep
Chapter 17:
On the Uselessness of fleeting Samadhis
And the Way to Wisdom
Chapter 18:
Chapter 19:
Chapter 20:
Vidya Gita
Chapter 21:
On the accomplishment of Wisdom
Its Nature and Scriptural Lore
Chapter 22:
The conclusion
APPENDIX I:
APPENDIX II:
INDEX