Adi Shankara
Vākyavṛtti (Exposition of the Great Saying)
Traditional attribution
Vākyavṛtti (Exposition of the Great Saying)
वाक्यवृत्ति (Vākyavṛtti)
A didactic poem of some fifty stanzas explaining the great Upanishadic saying "You are That" (tat tvam asi): what "you" refers to, what "That" refers to, and how, by eliminating what is not the Self, their identity is recognised. Traditionally used to instruct disciples in the Advaita method of discrimination.
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Authorship note
Attributed to Shankara by tradition; its authenticity is debated. Translated into Spanish within La esencia del Vedanta (Kairós, 1998).
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
Adi Shankara
Vakyavritti and Atmajnanopadeshavidhi of Sri Sankaracharya
The Conscious LibraryVakyavritti and Atmajnanopadeshavidhi of Sri Sankaracharya
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Deoghar, 1941
Español
Adi Shankara
La esencia del Vedanta (Vākyavṛtti, Ātmabodha, Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotra…)
The Conscious LibraryLa esencia del Vedanta (Vākyavṛtti, Ātmabodha, Dakṣiṇāmūrtistotra…)
Editorial Kairós, Barcelona, 1998
ISBN 9788472453579
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)
- 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
- 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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