Advaita bodha deepika (The lamp of non-dual knowledge)
Advaita (non-duality) is the Ultimate Truth originally said by All Vedas and Upanishads. Sri Adi Sankaracharya was the Great Sage, social reformer who brought this ‘high end Phylosophy of Advaita’ to common man, has written many commentaries on this. Sri Karapatra swami condensed this into Sanskrit versus in twelve chapters known as ‘Advaita bodha deepika’. Later this was translated into Tamil. The major topics of this work are 1. Adhyaropa = Super imposition. 2. Apavada = Its removal. 3. Sadhana = The means of accomplishment. 4. Sravana = Hearing, reading, talking about God. 5. Manana = Reflecting on sravana. 6. Vasanakshaya = Annihilation of latencies. 7. Sakshatkara = Direct Realization. 8. Manonasa = Extinction of the mind. Here you can read a version which was highly spoke by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi of Arunachala, Tamilnadu in English.
