Adi Shankara
Method of Teaching Self-Knowledge
Traditional attribution
Method of Teaching Self-Knowledge
आत्मज्ञानोपदेशविधि (Ātmajñānopadeśavidhi)
A prose treatise on how the teacher should convey knowledge of the Self to the disciple: distinguishing the Self from the bodies and senses, refuting objections and leading step by step to the understanding that the Self is pure consciousness. Its dialogue form has been compared to the prose part of the Upadeśasāhasrī.
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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
Vakyavritti and Atmajnanopadeshavidhi of Sri Sankaracharya
The Conscious LibraryVakyavritti and Atmajnanopadeshavidhi of Sri Sankaracharya
Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madrás, 1973
Translation: Swami Jagadananda
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)
- 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
- 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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