Adi Shankara
Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam (Six Verses on Nirvāṇa)
Traditional attribution
Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam (Six Verses on Nirvāṇa)
निर्वाणषट्कम् (Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam / Ātmaṣaṭkam)
Six verses of negations —I am not the mind, nor the intellect, nor the senses— ending with the refrain "I am Śiva, whose form is consciousness and bliss". Its modern spread through recordings and recitations has made it a popular emblem of Advaita.
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Authorship note
Traditional attribution without critical support; legend makes it the boy Śaṅkara's reply to Govinda, a role also given to the Daśaślokī.
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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)
- 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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