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Upadeśa Sāram
Thirty verses ranking every practice — ritual, chant, breath, meditation, enquiry — and explaining why they are ordered as they are.
1927 · Ramaṇa Maharṣi
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The clearest short answer to "where does my own practice fit?"
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- Upadeśa Sāram teaching — Swami Dayananda Saraswati Thirty verses ranking ritual, chanting, meditation and enquiry — and saying why enquiry ends it.
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