Adi Shankara
Aparokṣānubhūti (Direct Experience)
Traditional attribution
Aparokṣānubhūti (Direct Experience)
अपरोक्षानुभूति (Aparokṣānubhūti)
A short treatise of 144 verses proposing a "fifteen-limbed yoga" aimed at immediate realisation of the self. Widely read in the renunciant orders, it illustrates the later convergence of Advaita and meditative practice.
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Authorship note
Traditional attribution, doubtful for scholarship: its fifteen-limbed yoga does not match the authentic commentaries.
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English
Adi Shankara
Aparokshanubhuti or Self-Realization of Sri Sankaracharya
The Conscious LibraryAparokshanubhuti or Self-Realization of Sri Sankaracharya
Advaita Ashrama
Translation: Swami Vimuktananda
Other works by Adi Shankara
- Commentary on the Brahmasūtras · 800
- Commentary on the Bhagavadgītā · 800
- Commentaries on the principal Upaniṣads
- Commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Chāndogya Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad and Gauḍapāda's Kārikā
- Upadeśasāhasrī (A Thousand Teachings)
- Vivekacūḍāmaṇi (The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination)
- Ātmabodha (Self-Knowledge)
- Bhaja Govindam (Mohamudgara)
- Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam (Six Verses on Nirvāṇa)
- Saundaryalaharī (Flood of Beauty)
- Hymn to Dakṣiṇāmūrti
- Sub-commentary on the Yogasūtras
- Commentary on the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Viṣṇusahasranāma
- Pañcīkaraṇa (The Quintuplication of the Elements)
- Vākyavṛtti (Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Method of Teaching Self-Knowledge
- Laghuvākyavṛtti (Short Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Discrimination between the Seer and the Seen
- Tattvabodha (Knowledge of Truth)
- Śataślokī (A Hundred Verses)
- Svātmanirūpaṇa (Definition of One's Own Self)
- Śivānandalaharī (Wave of Śiva's Bliss)
- Sādhana Pañcakam (Five Verses on Practice)
- Commentary on the Sanatsujātīya
- Prapañcasāra Tantra (The Essence of Manifestation)
- Daśaślokī (Ten Verses)
- Kanakadhārā Stotra (Hymn of the Golden Shower)
- Commentary on the Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanī Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Lalitātriśatī (The Three Hundred Names of Lalitā)
- Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
Sources
- Potter, Karl H. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. III: Advaita Vedānta up to Śaṃkara and His Pupils. Princeton University Press / Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981.
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