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1)Vivekachudamani :- Sri Samkara, reverently adored as Sri Bhagavatpada, wrote illuminating Commentaries on the triple classics of Vedanta Philosophy, the “Upanishads”, the “Bhagavad-Gita” and the “Brahma Sutras” to provide knowledge of the scriptural texts, reinforcing them by accordant reasoning and verifying them by personal experience. Out of compassion for those who are incapable of mastering these commentaries and to instruct them in the verities of Vedanta, he wrote a number of minor works known as “Prakarana Granthas”. Of these, the “Vivekacudamani” is the best known. It gives the quintessence of spiritual knowledge. Significantly called the Crest Jewel of discrimination: it shows that the ills of life are to be traced to one’s inability to discriminate between the eternal and the ephemeral. Mistaking the worldly things, which are the non-atman for one’s real atman, one loses oneself pursuit of them, and this prolongs the samsaric cycle. Discrimination between the atman and the anatman is the primordium on which the entire spiritual process for atmasaksatkara which leads to liberation is based. Sri Bhagavatpada charts out this voyage of an afflicted and earnest inquirer across the sea of samsara in the form of a dialogue between a sisya and his guru to whom he has supplicated, and who helps to transmute the textual knowledge of the sisya into a fact of realisation. There was no extant commentary on this work for long. This has now been graciously provided by the celebrated Jivanmukta, His Holiness Jagadguru Sri chandrasekhara Bharati Pujyapadah of revered memoru who adorned the Sarada Pitham at Sringeri as it’s thirty fourth pondiff, on the lines of Bhagavatpada’s Bhasyas on the Prasthanatraya, ensowing the golden petals of this classic with the fragrance of his masterly exposition. This book is an English rendering of this Commentary by a feeble pen, which is conscious of it’s limitations to bring out the spirit of the original with fidelity to content an accuracy of expression.

2)Hindu Dharma The Universal Way of Life :- To deal with Hindu Dharma or, more correctly, Veda Dharma or Sanatana Dharma, within the compass of a book, is like trying to contain an ocean in a jar. It is a task that can be accomplished only by a Great Master. Such a Master was Pujyasri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami who has in the discourses constituting this book given an illuminating account of Hindu Dharma in all its aspects. He has brought to bear here not only his vast erudition but also his intuitive insights and synaptic vision. It is doubtful if in modern times any other acharya has given such a lucid and comprehensive exegesis of our sastras. The Paramaguru discusses the basic texts of Veda Dharma ? the four Vedas, the six Vedangas, Mimamsa, Nyaya, the Puranas and Dharmasastra. These encompass various systems of thought and various points of view and the Great Master tries to make them part of one unified vision that is Hinduism. He combines ancient wisdom with modern knowledge and it is thus that he finds common points between the metaphysics and physics of sound in the CHAPTER in which he expounds the Vedas and tells us why their sound must be preserved. It is all in the context of varna dharma to which we owe the achievements of our great civilization. We need Brahmins as a separate class only to preserve the Vedic dharma and work for the well-being of mankind. In the varna system the duties of the various jatis are interlinked so as to ensure cohesion and harmony in society. Altogether it is an integrated view of Sanatana Dharma that emerges in which the ultimate Vedic message of liberation here and now is underlined. Pujyasri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami was installed as the 68th Sankaracharya of Kanci Kamakoti Pitha in 1907 when he was hardly 13 years old. His life spanned the greater part of the century and during this period of social and political ferment he was one of the guiding lights. He was a divine incarnation – indeed he was the greatest spiritual luminary of our time ? and his mission of restoring the vedic religion to its old glory was no less significant than that of Adi Sankara. This Master of Masters was like a lambent light who rekindled the spirit of the nation and brought about a renaissance in many spheres like religion and culture. He was the voice of eternal India and he taught mankind, groping in the dark despite all the strides taken in science and technology, how to journey towards a higher destiny, how to win the highest of freedoms, the freedom of Atma-svarajya. His compassion was as boundless as his jnana. The memory of his gentle face can never be erased from our hearts and we shall cherish it always as we shall the memory of his hand that conveyed his blessings. We still hear his godly voice brought by the wind and the waves of the sea and we still feel the infinitude of his divine presence.

3)The Vedas :- The Vedas are without a beginning. This might militate against commonsense. Our modem scientific mind always looks for a source, a cause and a date for any historical event. And the compilation of a work like Vedas must definitely have had a beginning. Concepts like eternity, beginning lessness, limitlessness are simply taboo for any scientific study, as these do not permit of the application of mathematics’ for their further development and study. However, the fact remains that the Universe, both the Phenomenal and the Noumenal, extends far beyond ‘Space’ and ‘Time’, the two basic devices and tools used by us to measure any phenomenon. Only some modes of this Universe fall within space and time and are apprehended as physical universe by our conditioned and limited consciousness. We (like the proverbial fish in water) do not and cannot see the limitless ocean, but can see only the waves, wave-fronts and froth in it. If the Universe is the manifestation of the Reality, the Dharma or the cosmic ord- er is Its Will or design and Jatya and Rita (‘Spoken Truth and Truth as it is’) are its very nature. When it is said that the Vedas are the emanations of the breath of Brahma (the creator), it is to be understood that the Vedas constitute both essential and sustaining knowledge, as vital as the breath for life. The four Vedas, Rig, Yajur, Sarna and Atharva, which are believed to be vibrations in space and synthesised 5, 000 years ago at the beginning of this Kali Yuga, by Bhagwan Veda Vyasa, consis- ted of 1, 131 sakhas (recensions), 2 t in Rik, 101 in Yajus, 1000 in Sarna and 9 in Atharva. They were preserved in the Param- para (line) of Rishis (seers), viz. , Paila, Vaishampayana, Jaimini and Sumanthu, by oral tradition, from father to son’ and guru (teacher) to sishya (disciple). Of late, the notion that education other than Vedic studies alone would ensure a livelihood, has led” to many in the line taking to secular studies.

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1)Vivekachudamani :- Sri Samkara, reverently adored as Sri Bhagavatpada, wrote illuminating Commentaries on the triple classics of Vedanta Philosophy, the “Upanishads”, the “Bhagavad-Gita” and the “Brahma Sutras” to provide knowledge of the scriptural texts, reinforcing them by accordant reasoning and verifying them by personal experience. Out of compassion for those who are incapable of mastering these commentaries and to instruct them in the verities of Vedanta, he wrote a number of minor works known as “Prakarana Granthas”. Of these, the “Vivekacudamani” is the best known. It gives the quintessence of spiritual knowledge. Significantly called the Crest Jewel of discrimination: it shows that the ills of life are to be traced to one’s inability to discriminate between the eternal and the ephemeral. Mistaking the worldly things, which are the non-atman for one’s real atman, one loses oneself pursuit of them, and this prolongs the samsaric cycle. Discrimination between the atman and the anatman is the primordium on which the entire spiritual process for atmasaksatkara which leads to liberation is based. Sri Bhagavatpada charts out this voyage of an afflicted and earnest inquirer across the sea of samsara in the form of a dialogue between a sisya and his guru to whom he has supplicated, and who helps to transmute the textual knowledge of the sisya into a fact of realisation. There was no extant commentary on this work for long. This has now been graciously provided by the celebrated Jivanmukta, His Holiness Jagadguru Sri chandrasekhara Bharati Pujyapadah of revered memoru who adorned the Sarada Pitham at Sringeri as it’s thirty fourth pondiff, on the lines of Bhagavatpada’s Bhasyas on the Prasthanatraya, ensowing the golden petals of this classic with the fragrance of his masterly exposition. This book is an English rendering of this Commentary by a feeble pen, which is conscious of it’s limitations to bring out the spirit of the original with fidelity to content an accuracy of expression.

2)Hindu Dharma The Universal Way of Life :- To deal with Hindu Dharma or, more correctly, Veda Dharma or Sanatana Dharma, within the compass of a book, is like trying to contain an ocean in a jar. It is a task that can be accomplished only by a Great Master. Such a Master was Pujyasri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami who has in the discourses constituting this book given an illuminating account of Hindu Dharma in all its aspects. He has brought to bear here not only his vast erudition but also his intuitive insights and synaptic vision. It is doubtful if in modern times any other acharya has given such a lucid and comprehensive exegesis of our sastras. The Paramaguru discusses the basic texts of Veda Dharma ? the four Vedas, the six Vedangas, Mimamsa, Nyaya, the Puranas and Dharmasastra. These encompass various systems of thought and various points of view and the Great Master tries to make them part of one unified vision that is Hinduism. He combines ancient wisdom with modern knowledge and it is thus that he finds common points between the metaphysics and physics of sound in the CHAPTER in which he expounds the Vedas and tells us why their sound must be preserved. It is all in the context of varna dharma to which we owe the achievements of our great civilization. We need Brahmins as a separate class only to preserve the Vedic dharma and work for the well-being of mankind. In the varna system the duties of the various jatis are interlinked so as to ensure cohesion and harmony in society. Altogether it is an integrated view of Sanatana Dharma that emerges in which the ultimate Vedic message of liberation here and now is underlined. Pujyasri Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami was installed as the 68th Sankaracharya of Kanci Kamakoti Pitha in 1907 when he was hardly 13 years old. His life spanned the greater part of the century and during this period of social and political ferment he was one of the guiding lights. He was a divine incarnation – indeed he was the greatest spiritual luminary of our time ? and his mission of restoring the vedic religion to its old glory was no less significant than that of Adi Sankara. This Master of Masters was like a lambent light who rekindled the spirit of the nation and brought about a renaissance in many spheres like religion and culture. He was the voice of eternal India and he taught mankind, groping in the dark despite all the strides taken in science and technology, how to journey towards a higher destiny, how to win the highest of freedoms, the freedom of Atma-svarajya. His compassion was as boundless as his jnana. The memory of his gentle face can never be erased from our hearts and we shall cherish it always as we shall the memory of his hand that conveyed his blessings. We still hear his godly voice brought by the wind and the waves of the sea and we still feel the infinitude of his divine presence.

3)The Vedas :- The Vedas are without a beginning. This might militate against commonsense. Our modem scientific mind always looks for a source, a cause and a date for any historical event. And the compilation of a work like Vedas must definitely have had a beginning. Concepts like eternity, beginning lessness, limitlessness are simply taboo for any scientific study, as these do not permit of the application of mathematics’ for their further development and study. However, the fact remains that the Universe, both the Phenomenal and the Noumenal, extends far beyond ‘Space’ and ‘Time’, the two basic devices and tools used by us to measure any phenomenon. Only some modes of this Universe fall within space and time and are apprehended as physical universe by our conditioned and limited consciousness. We (like the proverbial fish in water) do not and cannot see the limitless ocean, but can see only the waves, wave-fronts and froth in it. If the Universe is the manifestation of the Reality, the Dharma or the cosmic ord- er is Its Will or design and Jatya and Rita (‘Spoken Truth and Truth as it is’) are its very nature. When it is said that the Vedas are the emanations of the breath of Brahma (the creator), it is to be understood that the Vedas constitute both essential and sustaining knowledge, as vital as the breath for life. The four Vedas, Rig, Yajur, Sarna and Atharva, which are believed to be vibrations in space and synthesised 5, 000 years ago at the beginning of this Kali Yuga, by Bhagwan Veda Vyasa, consis- ted of 1, 131 sakhas (recensions), 2 t in Rik, 101 in Yajus, 1000 in Sarna and 9 in Atharva. They were preserved in the Param- para (line) of Rishis (seers), viz. , Paila, Vaishampayana, Jaimini and Sumanthu, by oral tradition, from father to son’ and guru (teacher) to sishya (disciple). Of late, the notion that education other than Vedic studies alone would ensure a livelihood, has led” to many in the line taking to secular studies.

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Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Mahaswamigal also known as the Sage of Kanchi or Mahaperiyavar was the 68th Jagadguru Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham. Mahaperiyavar's discourses have been recorded in a Tamil book titled "Deivathin Kural".