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Crest
Jewel of Wisdom
Also known as the Crest Jewel of Discrimination
or Viveka-Chudamani
By
SANKARA
Translated
by JOHN RICHARDS
Editor's
Introduction
ACCORDING TO TRADITION, this book was written by Sankara,
the most important philosopher of Advaita Vedanta. Modern
scholarship has
cast doubt on this attribution, but the book remains
one of the most famous and widely-read classics in the
Advaitan literature.
The
author (whoever he or she may have been) sets forth
a method of Jnana Yoga called viveka or discrimination
in which the seeker learns to distinguish what is really
the self from the insentient things with which it is
normally confused.
Mr.
John Richards, who made this translation, placed it
in the public domain in 1998. His email address is jhr@elidor.demon.co.uk.
—
Editor, Realization.org
Contents
Verses
1- 50
Verses 51-100
Verses
101-150
Verses 151-200
Verses
201-250
Verses 251-300
Verses
301-350
Verses 351-400
Verses
401-450
Verses 451-500
Verses
501-550
Verses 551-580
This page was published on Realization.org on May 16,
2000 and last revised on July 11, 2001.
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