Adi Shankara
Sādhana Pañcakam (Five Verses on Practice)
Traditional attribution
Sādhana Pañcakam (Five Verses on Practice)
साधनपञ्चक (Sādhanapañcaka)
Five stanzas condensing into forty instructions the itinerary of the Advaita aspirant, from daily study of the Vedas and fulfilment of duty to renunciation, the company of the wise, meditation on the great saying and abiding in the Self. Tradition presents it as Shankara's last teaching to his disciples.
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Authorship note
Attributed to Shankara by tradition; modern scholarship (Hacker, Mayeda) does not count it among his works of secure authorship. No verified Spanish edition: title translated.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
Sri Shankaracharya, Sadhana Panchakam
The Conscious LibrarySri Shankaracharya, Sadhana Panchakam
Nagesh D. Sonde, Bombay, 2007
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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)
- Aparokṣānubhūti (Direct Experience)
- 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)
- 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
- Open Library, registros de ediciones de las obras menores atribuidas a Śaṅkara (Vākyavṛtti, Dṛg-dṛśya-viveka, Tattvabodha, Śivānandalaharī, Śataślokī, Svātmanirūpaṇa, Sanatsujātīya-bhāṣya…), consultados el 2026-10-25.
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