Śaṅkara and the Advaita manuals
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
580 verses: the whole path from the first stirring of discrimination to liberation, including the hardest questions about what remains afterwards.
traditional · attributed to Śaṅkara
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The tradition's great long-form work of practice; Ramaṇa translated it himself.
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- Vivekacūḍāmaṇi talks — Swami Chinmayananda The crest-jewel of discrimination, read as a training programme rather than poetry.
- Vivekacūḍāmaṇi classes — Swami Sarvapriyananda Ramana called this text his own touchstone; here it is taught verse by verse.
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