Sri Śaṅkara and the Advaita manuals
Aparokṣānubhūti
Direct experience, treated procedurally: enquiry, the fifteen steps, and what mistakes look like.
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- Advaita Śāradā, Sanskrit source text — Sringeri Sharada Peetham Direct experience distinguished from inference, in a hundred and forty-four verses.
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