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Sri Sankara - Book Summary
Author : ShankaraNarayanan
S
Adyar Library and Research
Center ] The Theosophical
Society Press
2011 && ISBN [10]: 81-85141-
14-2
ForeWords by
 Radha Burnier
 Swami Smarananda [ Sri
Ramakrishna Math,
Chennai
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
 Satyam Gnanam Anantam
Brahma
 Santam Shivam Advaitam
Biographies on Sankara
 33 accounts
 Brihaccankaravijaya 1&2 =
Chitsukhacharya 1220 AD?
 Sankaravijaya
 anandagiri{Sivarahasya
tradition}
 Sankara was born in
chidambaram
Hostile Accounts
 Dwaita Works
 Madhava Vijaya
 ManiManjari
 Buddhism History -
Taranatha
 Sankara leapt into Ganga
after losing to Dharma-kirti
 history Writing in India &&
CHAPTER II: THE BACKGROUND
2-fold division of bharat Dharma
 Pravriti >> Rituals and
Scriptures
 Nivritti >> renunciation,
enquiry, negation ]
Dharma in Sankara's times
 The supremacy of
Buddhism, 26.
 Sunya Vada
 Vignana Vada
 Sanghas
 Chaitya
 sangha-aramas
6 schools of Dharma
 Sankhya
 Oldest ... inert material
cause, [ pradhaana]
 denouncing supremeness
 satkarya vada [ theory of
causation, effects exist subtly
in the cause]
 Gopu44 ~ Saankhya ++ No
God particle
 Nyaya
6 schools of Dharma
 Vaisesikha
 Yoga = Patanjali
 Purva-Mimamsa
 Key thinkers >> Jaimini,
Upavarsa, Sabar-svamin
 pravritti dharma && Karma
 Bhartru-prapanca >> found it
difficult tounderstand how
Nivritti was an independent
Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32
 Prasthanatraya >>
Brahmasutras &&
Upanishads &&
Bagavadgita
 Advaita: Northern school of
Vedanta, >> Gaudapãda / ?
Buddhistic features of
Gauda pada's Karikas
 mandukya kaarika ...
commentary on Mandukya
Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32
 Govinda Bhagavatpada. ,
 Mahabhasya of Patanjali,
grammarian
 Real name chandra-svamin
 4 sons { bhartruhari sabda-
advaita vaada [ wave theory ]
} Kashmir / Ujjain
Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32
 Southern school of Vedanta
, 35.
 Brahmanandin ... Chandogya
Vaakya, [atri]
 Dramidacarya ... Bhasya on
the above vaakya [atri]
 Sundara Pandya ... varttika
on sariraka mimansa vritti by
upavarsa
3 degrees of reality
 illusory rope snake
 Absolute Brahman
 phenomenal reality
Sri Sankara the Unifier
CHAPTER III: LIFE oF SRI
SANKARA: BIRTH
 Quotes by Veda Vyasa and
Max Müller on the
limitations of logic. 39
Scenic Kerala
 Also known as Parasu-
Rãmaksetra, 41.
 Cidvilasa ... 15 verse
description , purna, Curni,
Aluwa, Periyar,
 Alwaye Kaaladi
 Kaipillli house
Atri Gotra
 RigVeda book 5
 svarbhanu, Sun
 taittiriya YajurVeda,
 10K students
 atri free from rajas tamas,
sat
 Anusuya
 Dandaka Forest
Parents
 Sivaguru Father : Title
Vidhya-adhiraja
 Makha Pandita FIL >>
Meputtur
 Aryamba Mother
Tri-sivaperur [ Trissur ] Blessings
 Vrsa-cala Bull hill
 Dakshina Kailasa
Legend of Sankara as Siva
 Muruga = Kumarila bhatta
 Indra = King Sudhanva
 Brahma = Visvarupa
mandana Misra
 Sarasvati as wife ubhaya
bharati
 Vishnu = Padmapada
 Vayu = Hastamaalaka and
Birth of Sankara
 Was born on Pancami,
Vaisakha [ May / June ]
 guru poornima today
 ? punarvasu = Rama
 ? ardra 6th Siva }
 Meaning samkara
 Sam [5] + Ka [1] + Ra [2]
 5 th day, 1st fortnight, 2nd
Ref: Sanskrit numbering
 sequential consonants
 chronograph, 1 sun, 2 eyes
etc..
Key milestones
 3Y = caulakarma
 Saundarya Lahari
 Bhagavathi feeds the baby
 Baby narrates [
Devibhujanga,
Bhujangaprayaata ]
 5Y upanayana
Key milestones continued..
 ghatika
 chaturvaidyasala
 bhiksha carana
 7Y = completed all the
vaidika works
 Kanakadhara Stotra
 Poor woman, gooseberry
offering bhiksha
Key milestones Continued
 Rajasekhara's visit gold,
 3 poems , they are good
 Son is born
 Rishis visit
 8Y expanded to 16Y sad
news
 Crocodile incident leading to
sam-nyasa
 VivekaChudamani
CHAPTER IV LIFE ...
COMMENTATOR & DEBATOR
 Quotes Merutunga and
George Eliot on ancient
stories 70.
Meets Govinda Bhagavatpada
 Ans Sat-chit-ananda
 Recites the Dasa-sloki
 madhusudana Sarasvati
comments that this is better
than Brahma-sutras of
baadaraayana / Vyasa ]
contains narmada
 narmada-astaka
 Vindhya viruddham dhyayati
 Agastya = one who
conquered a mountain ,
Gaudapada
 patanjali student cursed
 mahabhasya
 released by Govinda /
ChandaraSvamin
Sankara begins his works
 Kasi [ pentad and Octad
written
 Meeting Vishnu-sarma who
becomes sanandana and
later padma-pada
 Bhaja Govindam
 dwadasa pajarika stotra
 chaturdasa [ charpata]
panjarika stotra ] == 12 + 14
Candala as preceptor
 Manisa pancakam
Badarika Asrama under Gauda pada
Main works of Sankara in Kashi
 15 Bhashyas
 11 Upanishad Bhasya >>
Mandukya, Isha, Kena [2] ,
Chandogya, katha, prashna,
taittiriy,Aittiriya, bhruhad-
aranyaka , mundaka
 2 bhaasyas on kena are pada
and vakya [ word and
sentence]
 3 itihasa bhasya
 Bagavadgita,
Debate Badaraayana Vyasa
 mural in the varadaraja
temple in kanci
 gives himm 16 more years
4 stages of learning
 Learning a subject [
 understanding the subject
 living the learning
accordingly [
 propagating the learning
@ 16Y comparison with
Devanaampriya Asoka
Agnisarma & Return to Kaladi
 Agni Sarma brings family
wealth
 Sankara builds a temple
 Returns to Kaaladi
 Aaryamba dies and
cremation
 Self .. cursing nambudiri of
kaaladi
Winning Mandana misra
 Meeting Kumarila Bhatta on
funeral pyre
 Falling pushed by buddhists,
losing right eye
 kumarila asks Sankara to
write a varttika on Sariraka
Bhasya
 Mandana Misra, Umveka,
Prabhakara Misra, Muraari
Misra
amaru-sataka by sankara
sureshwara-carya
 1st sankara of sringeri ]
Chapter V : Triumph, Pigrimage and
Mukti
 Visits and meetings list
 Kapalika attacks but dies
hasta-aamalaka
 7Y son of prabhakara,
 dumb gets voice
 hastamaalakiya bhasyam
 guru writes bhasya on
disciples verses
Giri = totaka-acharya
 sruthi sara samudhaarana
 totaka meter 179 verses
 verse for a leper
 Ekaasloki
 commentary by
svayamprakasa yogi
 disciple of gopala yogiindra
Final Days
 kaapalika krakaca >> killed
by bhairava
 bhagandara anal disease
 ? Kaamarupa
 ? debate abhinava gupta
Chapter V – Key works and
contributions
shanmatha sthapana acarya
 6 deities unified with 6
disciples
 Surya / indra == ravi
kumara
 Sakthi = tripura kumara
 Shaiva == paramata
kaalanala
 Ganapatya = girijaa kumara
Sankara Matha
 Sringeri == Saradapitha =
Bhoga == suresvara
 Dwarika == kaalika pitha
 Badari nath == jyotimati
pitha = mukti
 Puri == vimala pitha
 Kanci == kaamkoti pitha ==
yoga
Disciples
 Mandana Suresvara ==
Bhasya on taittiriya and
Bruhad aranyaka ++ Nais
karma siddhi
 Totaka = tika , pancapadika
 Padma Pada
 Upadesa pancaka . pantad
for easy understanding of
advaita sara
?samadhi of sankara
 kanci
 kedaranath
 badariaasrama
 dattaatreya asrama
 Trissur,
Types of commentaries
 Sutra
 Bhaasya
 Varttika
Chapter VI Philosophy of Sankara
Key concepts
 Brahma Jignasa, Atma
Jignasa Brahma Vicara
 Brahma satya jagan mithya
jiva barhmaiva naaparaha
Brahma sat
 svarupalaksana
 negation, == nirguna saguna
 antaryaamin
 sambandha avastha -
imaginary relations
 maya- sakti leads to lower
level entities with different sat
rajas tamas , sankhya inert
 Sambandha anaavastha
advaita= nature of Brahman
 not relations
sraddha manana anumana
Vis-a-vis others
 frailty of suska tarka self
based logic
 Sravana and sramana
 Buddha Sankara
 Nirguna saguna are the
same
 vimuktas cha vimucyate
3 states atma Brahman medium
 self deha dehi ( jiva)
 reflects universal nature
 svaprakasa self luminous
 Atman aham difference
 anirvacaniya and through
maya-sakti
Maya Sakti
 Aavarana Maya ]
Manifestation
 Viksepa veiling and
manifesting extremes
leading to lower forms
 self clouding
Other concepts
 17 layers organs
 sutra-atma atma as a string
 Indian string theory
mahaprana virat
vaishvaanara
 gods are interactions of
guna rajas sat tamas in
differing proportions
Maya
 Differentiation bheda !
 Interaction sambandha !
 Interpretation mithya
Brahman
 Anantham ! [ Unbounded –
desha, kala, Vastu
 Satyam ! [ Reality
 Jnanam ! [ consciousness
Jagan mithya
 phantasia
 buddha comparison
vivartavada
 satkaaravada
parinamavada vivartavada
change and no change
 cryptic Buddhist
Atma brahmaiva na para
 brahmavid brahmaiva
bhavati
 atomic atma
 embodied Brahman
 encapsulation satyam
jnanam anantam atma
Brahman is not ruler
 Just being
 Ruler knows the kingdom
but not everywhere
 wrong association Brahman
not associated
 medium size atma
realization failure
 Hunter kidnap instant
realization to Prince
 bhagatyagalaksana
 words association are
dropped
 Only root essence is true
 number and arithmetic
ways to get there
impermanence
kataka nut
 water purification
Soham vs daso-ham
 Our perception is limited
reality
 association sambandha
avastha problem like owner
described as the house
Chapter VII : relevance on Sankara
in modern times
 dogma and belief based on
Veda
 Veda & Sankara prod
people to think independent
 experience and thinking
before validating
 Pitch based on
understanding self and
nature
basis of advaita
 progress does not need
philosophy
 there is lot of progress
 mind fear depression
 inner engineering
Appendix I : Dating Sankara
 Dharmakirthi
 Buddha references
Appendix II : Twin Controversies
Appendix III : Works of Sankara

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Book summary sankara

  • 1. Sri Sankara - Book Summary Author : ShankaraNarayanan S Adyar Library and Research Center ] The Theosophical Society Press 2011 && ISBN [10]: 81-85141- 14-2
  • 2. ForeWords by  Radha Burnier  Swami Smarananda [ Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai
  • 3. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION  Satyam Gnanam Anantam Brahma  Santam Shivam Advaitam
  • 4. Biographies on Sankara  33 accounts  Brihaccankaravijaya 1&2 = Chitsukhacharya 1220 AD?  Sankaravijaya  anandagiri{Sivarahasya tradition}  Sankara was born in chidambaram
  • 5. Hostile Accounts  Dwaita Works  Madhava Vijaya  ManiManjari  Buddhism History - Taranatha  Sankara leapt into Ganga after losing to Dharma-kirti  history Writing in India &&
  • 6. CHAPTER II: THE BACKGROUND
  • 7. 2-fold division of bharat Dharma  Pravriti >> Rituals and Scriptures  Nivritti >> renunciation, enquiry, negation ]
  • 8. Dharma in Sankara's times  The supremacy of Buddhism, 26.  Sunya Vada  Vignana Vada  Sanghas  Chaitya  sangha-aramas
  • 9. 6 schools of Dharma  Sankhya  Oldest ... inert material cause, [ pradhaana]  denouncing supremeness  satkarya vada [ theory of causation, effects exist subtly in the cause]  Gopu44 ~ Saankhya ++ No God particle  Nyaya
  • 10. 6 schools of Dharma  Vaisesikha  Yoga = Patanjali  Purva-Mimamsa  Key thinkers >> Jaimini, Upavarsa, Sabar-svamin  pravritti dharma && Karma  Bhartru-prapanca >> found it difficult tounderstand how Nivritti was an independent
  • 11. Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32  Prasthanatraya >> Brahmasutras && Upanishads && Bagavadgita  Advaita: Northern school of Vedanta, >> Gaudapãda / ? Buddhistic features of Gauda pada's Karikas  mandukya kaarika ... commentary on Mandukya
  • 12. Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32  Govinda Bhagavatpada. ,  Mahabhasya of Patanjali, grammarian  Real name chandra-svamin  4 sons { bhartruhari sabda- advaita vaada [ wave theory ] } Kashmir / Ujjain
  • 13. Vedanta before Sri Sankara 32  Southern school of Vedanta , 35.  Brahmanandin ... Chandogya Vaakya, [atri]  Dramidacarya ... Bhasya on the above vaakya [atri]  Sundara Pandya ... varttika on sariraka mimansa vritti by upavarsa
  • 14. 3 degrees of reality  illusory rope snake  Absolute Brahman  phenomenal reality
  • 15. Sri Sankara the Unifier
  • 16. CHAPTER III: LIFE oF SRI SANKARA: BIRTH  Quotes by Veda Vyasa and Max Müller on the limitations of logic. 39
  • 17. Scenic Kerala  Also known as Parasu- Rãmaksetra, 41.  Cidvilasa ... 15 verse description , purna, Curni, Aluwa, Periyar,  Alwaye Kaaladi  Kaipillli house
  • 18. Atri Gotra  RigVeda book 5  svarbhanu, Sun  taittiriya YajurVeda,  10K students  atri free from rajas tamas, sat  Anusuya  Dandaka Forest
  • 19. Parents  Sivaguru Father : Title Vidhya-adhiraja  Makha Pandita FIL >> Meputtur  Aryamba Mother
  • 20. Tri-sivaperur [ Trissur ] Blessings  Vrsa-cala Bull hill  Dakshina Kailasa
  • 21. Legend of Sankara as Siva  Muruga = Kumarila bhatta  Indra = King Sudhanva  Brahma = Visvarupa mandana Misra  Sarasvati as wife ubhaya bharati  Vishnu = Padmapada  Vayu = Hastamaalaka and
  • 22. Birth of Sankara  Was born on Pancami, Vaisakha [ May / June ]  guru poornima today  ? punarvasu = Rama  ? ardra 6th Siva }  Meaning samkara  Sam [5] + Ka [1] + Ra [2]  5 th day, 1st fortnight, 2nd
  • 23. Ref: Sanskrit numbering  sequential consonants  chronograph, 1 sun, 2 eyes etc..
  • 24. Key milestones  3Y = caulakarma  Saundarya Lahari  Bhagavathi feeds the baby  Baby narrates [ Devibhujanga, Bhujangaprayaata ]  5Y upanayana
  • 25. Key milestones continued..  ghatika  chaturvaidyasala  bhiksha carana  7Y = completed all the vaidika works  Kanakadhara Stotra  Poor woman, gooseberry offering bhiksha
  • 26. Key milestones Continued  Rajasekhara's visit gold,  3 poems , they are good  Son is born  Rishis visit  8Y expanded to 16Y sad news  Crocodile incident leading to sam-nyasa  VivekaChudamani
  • 27. CHAPTER IV LIFE ... COMMENTATOR & DEBATOR  Quotes Merutunga and George Eliot on ancient stories 70.
  • 28. Meets Govinda Bhagavatpada  Ans Sat-chit-ananda  Recites the Dasa-sloki  madhusudana Sarasvati comments that this is better than Brahma-sutras of baadaraayana / Vyasa ]
  • 29. contains narmada  narmada-astaka  Vindhya viruddham dhyayati  Agastya = one who conquered a mountain ,
  • 30. Gaudapada  patanjali student cursed  mahabhasya  released by Govinda / ChandaraSvamin
  • 31. Sankara begins his works  Kasi [ pentad and Octad written  Meeting Vishnu-sarma who becomes sanandana and later padma-pada  Bhaja Govindam  dwadasa pajarika stotra  chaturdasa [ charpata] panjarika stotra ] == 12 + 14
  • 32. Candala as preceptor  Manisa pancakam
  • 33. Badarika Asrama under Gauda pada
  • 34. Main works of Sankara in Kashi  15 Bhashyas  11 Upanishad Bhasya >> Mandukya, Isha, Kena [2] , Chandogya, katha, prashna, taittiriy,Aittiriya, bhruhad- aranyaka , mundaka  2 bhaasyas on kena are pada and vakya [ word and sentence]  3 itihasa bhasya  Bagavadgita,
  • 35. Debate Badaraayana Vyasa  mural in the varadaraja temple in kanci  gives himm 16 more years
  • 36. 4 stages of learning  Learning a subject [  understanding the subject  living the learning accordingly [  propagating the learning
  • 37. @ 16Y comparison with Devanaampriya Asoka
  • 38. Agnisarma & Return to Kaladi  Agni Sarma brings family wealth  Sankara builds a temple  Returns to Kaaladi  Aaryamba dies and cremation  Self .. cursing nambudiri of kaaladi
  • 39. Winning Mandana misra  Meeting Kumarila Bhatta on funeral pyre  Falling pushed by buddhists, losing right eye  kumarila asks Sankara to write a varttika on Sariraka Bhasya  Mandana Misra, Umveka, Prabhakara Misra, Muraari Misra
  • 42. Chapter V : Triumph, Pigrimage and Mukti  Visits and meetings list  Kapalika attacks but dies
  • 43. hasta-aamalaka  7Y son of prabhakara,  dumb gets voice  hastamaalakiya bhasyam  guru writes bhasya on disciples verses
  • 44. Giri = totaka-acharya  sruthi sara samudhaarana  totaka meter 179 verses  verse for a leper  Ekaasloki  commentary by svayamprakasa yogi  disciple of gopala yogiindra
  • 45. Final Days  kaapalika krakaca >> killed by bhairava  bhagandara anal disease  ? Kaamarupa  ? debate abhinava gupta
  • 46. Chapter V – Key works and contributions
  • 47. shanmatha sthapana acarya  6 deities unified with 6 disciples  Surya / indra == ravi kumara  Sakthi = tripura kumara  Shaiva == paramata kaalanala  Ganapatya = girijaa kumara
  • 48. Sankara Matha  Sringeri == Saradapitha = Bhoga == suresvara  Dwarika == kaalika pitha  Badari nath == jyotimati pitha = mukti  Puri == vimala pitha  Kanci == kaamkoti pitha == yoga
  • 49. Disciples  Mandana Suresvara == Bhasya on taittiriya and Bruhad aranyaka ++ Nais karma siddhi  Totaka = tika , pancapadika  Padma Pada  Upadesa pancaka . pantad for easy understanding of advaita sara
  • 50. ?samadhi of sankara  kanci  kedaranath  badariaasrama  dattaatreya asrama  Trissur,
  • 51. Types of commentaries  Sutra  Bhaasya  Varttika
  • 52. Chapter VI Philosophy of Sankara
  • 53. Key concepts  Brahma Jignasa, Atma Jignasa Brahma Vicara  Brahma satya jagan mithya jiva barhmaiva naaparaha
  • 54. Brahma sat  svarupalaksana  negation, == nirguna saguna  antaryaamin  sambandha avastha - imaginary relations  maya- sakti leads to lower level entities with different sat rajas tamas , sankhya inert  Sambandha anaavastha
  • 55. advaita= nature of Brahman  not relations
  • 57. Vis-a-vis others  frailty of suska tarka self based logic  Sravana and sramana  Buddha Sankara  Nirguna saguna are the same  vimuktas cha vimucyate
  • 58. 3 states atma Brahman medium  self deha dehi ( jiva)  reflects universal nature  svaprakasa self luminous  Atman aham difference  anirvacaniya and through maya-sakti
  • 59. Maya Sakti  Aavarana Maya ] Manifestation  Viksepa veiling and manifesting extremes leading to lower forms  self clouding
  • 60. Other concepts  17 layers organs  sutra-atma atma as a string  Indian string theory mahaprana virat vaishvaanara  gods are interactions of guna rajas sat tamas in differing proportions
  • 61. Maya  Differentiation bheda !  Interaction sambandha !  Interpretation mithya
  • 62. Brahman  Anantham ! [ Unbounded – desha, kala, Vastu  Satyam ! [ Reality  Jnanam ! [ consciousness
  • 63. Jagan mithya  phantasia  buddha comparison vivartavada  satkaaravada parinamavada vivartavada change and no change  cryptic Buddhist
  • 64. Atma brahmaiva na para  brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati  atomic atma  embodied Brahman  encapsulation satyam jnanam anantam atma
  • 65. Brahman is not ruler  Just being  Ruler knows the kingdom but not everywhere  wrong association Brahman not associated  medium size atma
  • 66. realization failure  Hunter kidnap instant realization to Prince  bhagatyagalaksana  words association are dropped  Only root essence is true  number and arithmetic ways to get there impermanence
  • 67. kataka nut  water purification
  • 68. Soham vs daso-ham  Our perception is limited reality  association sambandha avastha problem like owner described as the house
  • 69. Chapter VII : relevance on Sankara in modern times  dogma and belief based on Veda  Veda & Sankara prod people to think independent  experience and thinking before validating  Pitch based on understanding self and nature
  • 70. basis of advaita  progress does not need philosophy  there is lot of progress  mind fear depression  inner engineering
  • 71. Appendix I : Dating Sankara  Dharmakirthi  Buddha references
  • 72. Appendix II : Twin Controversies
  • 73. Appendix III : Works of Sankara